TWO-YEAR-OLD Liam Heffernan, who underwent pioneering brain surgery to help him overcome the fatal Batten disease, arrived back in Ireland yesterday — a week earlier than expected.

THE family of a young Co Cork girl, undergoing treatment for a rare brain tumour in a New York hospital, have reportedly been asked by the US authorities for confirmation of what funds are available to them before their visas can be renewed.

THE treatment of a Cork toddler undergoing lifesaving chemotherapy for a rare brain tumour in New York could be jeopardised if her family’s living expenses are not met and they become a financial burden on the US.

THE parents of three-year-old Megan Malone, who continues to make a remarkable recovery from a rare brain tumour, have spoken of the huge risk they took in ending her treatment in Ireland and bringing her to the US.

A little girl from Co Cork has been given the all-clear from brain and spinal cancer after receiving specialist treatment in the United States.

THE parents of little Megan Malone, who underwent life-saving treatment for a rare brain tumour in New York, have been told there is no longer any trace of cancer in her brain while tumours on her spine also appear to have completely cleared.

BRAVE little Megan Malone has given her parents an early Christmas gift in New York by making remarkable progress from a rare brain tumour.

A BRAVE little Cork girl with a rare and life-threatening disease has begun specialist treatment in America buoyed by the news that her tumour has reduced by 75%.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl from Co Cork who was diagnosed with a rare tumour in October — just a week after her parents celebrated the birth of a new child — travelled to New York yesterday for vital cancer treatment.

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SECONDARY school principal Noel Malone took special pride in the first year class of 2008 which yesterday enrolled at Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom.