Silicon Valley entrepreneur Barbara Paldus was returning to the US from a business trip when she came across Irish skincare brand, Bia Beauty, at Cork Airport.

“The nurses are great, they are doing calls for us. We get to ring them twice a day. They gave us a couple of video calls just to see him. Obviously he wasn’t conscious or anything, but we got to see him. We could talk away to him, but he wasn’t saying anything back.”