VIDEO: Meath parents make heartbreaking appeal on US TV to help save their son

He is a such a brave little man.

The parents of an Irish four-year-old have made an emotional plea on TV in Boston for donations to help to save their son’s life.

Cian McDonnell-Lynch, from Carlanstown in Co Meath, suffers from dyskeratosis congenita, a rare bone marrow failure syndrome that affects only about one in one million people. He’s now desperately in need of lung transplant because he also has microscopic pulmonary arteriovenous malformation, which is linked to his condition.