HE donated over €5 million to Limerick’s Mid-Western Hospital - but when JP McManus called to see a patient, security guards turned him away as it was after visiting hours.

A HOUSE site in Adare has been sold for €900,000, a record for the Mid-West.

FUNDING from the Department of Health will be needed to ensure public patients will be able to receive treatment at the new radiotherapy unit at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

TIGER Woods chipped in and JP McManus drove the project along, helping to give cancer patients in the mid-west a shot at survival and a new life.