‘Life was unbearable. We were not getting any sleep’

MARY and Pádraic O’Hara once begged their local health board to find someone to care for their two youngest sons so they could get a night’s sleep.

"They allowed us to go as low as we possibly could before they actually agreed to help us," recalled Mary yesterday.

But, the toddlers, who both suffer from a severe form of autism, proved to be such a handful that the health board has now run out of foster parents.