It’s just the backing she needed in her race against time for a Christmas miracle.

Angie Benhaffhaf was leaning out the front door chatting to one of her neighbours when she saw one and then both of her sons push themselves over the threshold and on to the tarmac outside their East Cork home.

THE HSE has refused to fund specialised overseas treatment for a Down syndrome child despite a recommendation from his doctor that he be treated in London.

PLANNING permission for a new National Children’s Hospital on a site adjacent to the Mater in Dublin city centre will be lodged within two weeks, the government confirmed yesterday.

THE decision to choose the Mater site in city centre of Dublin was made on both financial and clinical grounds, the Government said yesterday.