Pop sensation and television star Linda Nolan has died at the age of 65 following an almost 20-year cancer battle.

Born in Dublin, Linda Nolan shot to fame as part of the famous Nolan Sisters with hits including I'm In The Mood for Dancing and Don't Make Waves.

Linda is the second member of the family to die following a cancer battle after her sister Bernie died in 2013. Their sister Anne was also diagnosed with cancer in 2000 and later went into remission only for the cancer to return in 2000. The youngest Nolan sister, Coleen also revealed that she had been treated for a basal cell carcinoma on her shoulder and pre-cancerous melanoma on her face in 2023.

Linda Nolan had previously spoken of how she was first diagnosed while performing as the Wicked Queen in Snow White at the Grand Opera House in Belfast alongside May McFetterige and Eamonn Holmes.

“I was in Belfast doing pantomime and I had to go for my results in ­between shows on the Friday," she previously told the Irish Mirror.

“I was dressed as the Wicked Queen so it was a bit of a worry for them when I walked in!

“I was told then it was breast cancer. It was stage three, and I’d have to have a mastectomy and chemotherapy.

“I remember as he [the doctor] was saying these things, I’m looking down on him. The minute he said the word ‘cancer’, it was as if I’d left the room.

“My ­husband Brian was there and he was going greyer by the second. In fact, they had to give him water and not me. He was so devastated.

“He said to me when we got outside – and I obviously cried – ‘Shall I call them and tell them you can’t come in for the second show?’

“And I said, ‘No, we’ve got two nights left, nobody can really do the part I am doing because they don’t do understudies in panto, and it won’t make any difference to the diagnosis’.

“I said, ‘The only thing is, you cannot be standing in the wings ­because if I see you, it will be like a reality check and I will cry’.

"So I went and did the last three shows and we had a party after the one on Saturday.

“By the Thursday, I had an appointment to have the mastectomy.

"It was three days before my birthday.”

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