'My baby had his first heart surgery at just three days old'

Between 500 and 600 children are born with  congenital heart disease each year in Ireland 

Emma Moloney and Cormac in CHI Crumlin. Cormac was born with a congenital condition affecting the left side of his heart.

Co Clare mum of two Emma Moloney noticed her 20-week scan was taking longer than it had with her daughter, Aedín, born two years earlier.

“The sonographer said she felt 'a few parts were a bit small, she’d like to get advice from the professor on duty’… You just have that little knot of fear then, an instant feeling of something not quite right,” says home-economics teacher Moloney.