Carol O’Callaghan visits the new family room at the Mercy University Hospital’s Children’s Leukaemia Unit.

A survivor of last year’s Manx2 plane crash can expect a hero’s welcome in Cork today when he completes a charity cycle which followed the same route as the doomed flight.

PRAYERS paid off for a pair of nuns on the run, part of an 11,000-strong crowd taking part in the 30th Evening Echo Cork Women’s Mini Marathon.