Charity eases financial stress for families of children with life-limiting illnesses

Arlene Harris talks to the founders of a charity set up to help ease the financial stress parents with children with life-limiting illnesses can experience, added to the pain of watching their child suffer.

Cliona Ring would have celebrated her 26th birthday this year. But fate delivered a cruel blow to the Limerick girl when she developed an inoperable tumour and tragically died when she was just 15 years old.

Her parents Terry and Brendan were devastated by the death of their young daughter but instead of giving in to the obviously crippling grief they and their son Colm were experiencing, channelled their energies into creating a charity in Cliona’s name to raise funds for families of other terminally ill children around the country.