"Everyone would benefit from a treatment unit in Limerick."

MOTHER-of-three Lilly Wallace, 52, had to leave her home and family for six terrifying weeks to get radium treatment for colon cancer.

“It was a nightmare experience. My family were 120 miles away during the most horrific ordeal in our lives,” she said.

Lilly, who lives in Glasgow Park, Roxboro, Limerick, can’t understand why there’s no radiotherapy unit in the city hospital.