A 3-year-old girl has heard the magical sounds of Christmas for the first time — thanks to pioneering brain surgery.

“He turned when he heard the sound of heavy machinery on the streets of Manchester and that was a high for us.”

After three years of silence, this little Cork boy finally experienced something most of us take for granted — the ability to hear his parents and brothers.

A BRAVE little girl who was given little chance of survival shortly after birth has stunned the medical world with her miraculous progress.