Parents of a girl battling a terminal neurological illness are devastated after a potentially lifesaving medical trial was cancelled at the last minute.

A SERIOUSLY ill pre-school girl has been told her terminal neurological condition has progressed too far for her to be accepted onto a life-saving medical trial.

AN IRISH boy with a rare brain disorder which claimed the life of his sister is set to become the youngest child in the world to undergo a pioneering medical trial.

AN IRISH boy with a rare brain disorder which claimed the life of his sister is set to become the youngest child in the world to undergo a pioneering medical trial.

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”.