In February, at just 33-years-old, Terri-Louise Farren lost her husband to an aggressive brain tumour.
Mark Farren was best known for playing football with Derry City for nine years and being their all-time top scorer, with a record of 113 goals in 209 appearances with the club.
But it was the years they spent together that his wife, Terri, will remember him for.
A year before the couple were due to get married, a routine scan showed Mark had a brain tumour.
"We were naturally devastated, but they (the doctors) said it was benign and just needed to be kept an eye on." Terri told the Belfast Telegraph.
Mark, having had an operation, returned to play football to more great success and the couple were then married in 2009.
In 2014, Terri gave birth at just 23 weeks to triplets.
Babies Terri, Marley and Millie survived for just three weeks, and as the couple were grieving the loss of their three beautiful babies they were told that Mark’s tumour had returned and was growing.
Yet again, Mark underwent another surgery and again returned to play football after signing with Glenavon.
But when the tumour continued to grow Mark’s speech and movement were affected.
Travelling to Mexico to a clinic providing a treatment with a high success rate for his condition, the couple hoped this would be the answer.
Unfortunately Mark’s health deteriorated even further, and Terri made the decision to bring her husband home in December to make every remaining minute with him count.
Terri told the paper of their final moments together and what his wishes for her were.
Day by day, Mark, as Terri knew him, began to fade further and further from the man she married.
"In the last few weeks he couldn't really speak though I was able to understand everything he wanted, and every morning and every night he made the effort to tell me he loved me.”
Three hours before Mark’s death, Terri took her last photograph of them together.
In their final moment’s side-by-side, where they had been since she was 18 years old, Terri recalled what they spoke about.
"I remember saying to him - go and be with the girls. They need you. Don't stay because of me, I have friends and family to look after me, they need you now, let go, and he squeezed my hand and that was it.”
Terri added: "Mark made me promise two things - that I would always stay connected to his football world and go to matches and events and that I will always stay in touch with his friends."
"His legacy will live on through me doing those things."
