Town is united for brave boy Christy
It is a picturesque village, famous for the remains of the Franciscan friary founded by Donal Glas McCarthy in the 14th century, and the fine Spanish wine which its position, on the shore of a creek, made it easy to land. And, like many West Cork villages, Timoleague has a strong sense of community and a tradition of looking after those in need.
This support has been much in evidence of late, as local residents have joined to support two-year-old Christy Barry, who has juvenile Myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML). JMML is a very rare cancer of the blood, which occurs when too many immature white blood cells, called ‘myelocytes’ and ‘monocytes’, are made in the bone marrow and crowd out the healthy cells that belong there.
