Parents of Saoirse Ruane: 'As a family, we’ve had to fight a lot' 

The parents of Saoirse Ruane, who appeared in the ‘Toy Show’, open up about the serious medical issues their family has dealt with, from testicular cancer to secondary infertility and a life-threatening tumour. Sharon Ní Chonchúir reports

Saoirse Ruane stole our hearts when she appeared on The Late Late Toy Show last year. The nine-year-old from Athenry shyly shared the story of how she lost her right leg to cancer and giggled as she showed Ryan just how far she had come in learning to walk on her new prosthetic leg.

Her resilience runs in the family. Her father Ollie had testicular cancer in his early 30s, and both he and Saoirse’s mother Roseanna struggled with secondary infertility.