A two-year-old Irish boy is set to become the world’s youngest child to undergo pioneering brain surgery.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD Kerry boy will become the youngest child in the world to undergo pioneering brain surgery to combat a fatal disease.

A YOUNG Kerry boy suffering from a rare condition, Battens disease, has been invited to the US for assessment of a medical treatment trial which could save his life.

THE heartbroken parents of five-year-old Saoirse Heffernan, who recently travelled to the US to undergo treatment for Batten’s Disease, have been told their little girl is “starting to grow her angel wings”.

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Kerry girl, who is battling the usually fatal Battens Disease, is being treated in Kerry General Hospital, Tralee after a number of difficult weeks in Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin.

IN the fight for his family’s survival no mountain is too high to climb for the man who has organised the world’s highest boxing match on top of Carrantuohill in an effort to finance potentially life-saving treatment for his children.