A 15-year-old teenager who underwent surgery to remove a cancerous lump from her thyroid says doctors discovered another lump during the procedure.

Aoibh Maguire has been encouraging other young people to listen to their bodies and get checked.

She says she knew something was not right back in 2018, when she was constantly feeling sick.

She underwent the surgery back in October.

She told Lunchtime Live: "When they were doing the surgery they actually found another lump in the middle of my thyroid.

"So they saw that and it looked kind of suspicious, so they decided to take that out.

"They ended up having to take out 70% of my thyroid instead of 50%."

Aoibh says tests on the lump came back as positive for cancer.

"It had spread within my thyroid, so they were afraid there was cancerous particles around my thyroid."

"They decided that they were just going to monitor it and make sure that nothing grows, instead of taking out the rest of my thyroid".

She says she is getting on with her life, after only staying in hospital for one night.

"I recovered quite quickly - I kind of just stayed in bed for a week or so and gradually got better.

"And then went back to school and back to sports".

She says she is looking forward to a break for Christmas.

"My grandparents are coming over, we've been trying to be really safe so that they're OK.

"My granny's coming over - she comes over every second year - but this year she's coming over just cause of the year that we've had".

"My mom cries every two minutes - anytime she hears my name she just starts crying", Aoibh says.

Speaking before the surgery earlier this year, she said: "The doctors told me that I'm quite lucky cause I won't need chemotherapy or anything, that they just have to take out my thyroid which is good."

"I don't really have symptoms as such, there is a lump and there you can feel it.

"You can't see it, but you can definitely feel it".

"You kind of just have to listen to you body, don't be embarrassed about it.

"If you feel that there's something wrong with you, you need to go and get that checked up.

"If you don't know what it is, just make sure everything's OK and just go up with yourself.

"And if you feel a lump anywhere go and get it checked out - don't just leave it there and be like, 'Oh it probably isn't, I'm only a teenager - there's no way'".