I felt ‘someone was listening’

Helen O’Callaghan talks to a mum whose child has MMA

When Sharon Forsyth got the cheque from Cliona’s Foundation, tears rolled down her face. “Someone was listening — I didn’t feel so alone,” says the East Cork-based mum, whose two-year-old has MMA — Lorna’s body can’t metabolise protein in the normal way.

With patron Miriam O’Callaghan, Cliona’s Foundation is the only national charity here offering financial support for non-medical costs associated with a child’s critical illness.