About the speaker
Sarah Corbett Lynch
Sarah Corbett Lynch is an Irish author, speaker, advocate, qualified commercial diver, swim instructor and teacher. She is currently studying English and Drama at college.
Sarah Corbett Lynch received a Garda Youth Award and was nominated for Limerick Person of the Year 2020 at the age of 14 for her advocacy work and for writing her children’s book, Noodle Loses Dad, which helps children understand grief and loss.
Her memoir, A Time for Truth, became The Irish Times No. 1 Bestseller and won the Dubray Biography of the Year at the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards.
Sarah is also an ambassador for both Kinship Care Ireland and The Shona Project.
She is now moving into fiction writing with a two-book deal from Hachette. Across her writing, advocacy and public speaking, Sarah Corbett Lynch explores how stories can help people build self-belief, use their voice, and begin to shape their own future after grief, trauma or change.


