Meningitis girl had lost sister to virus

A MOTHER who lost a daughter to meningitis yesterday revealed her shock when she discovered another daughter had fallen seriously ill with the same infection.

Margaret Murray, from Ashfield in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, said she was worried when her daughter, Aoife, fell ill on the trip to the holy village of Medjugorje in Bosnia because one of her other children, Maria, died from the disease.

“I got such a shock, I nearly fainted when I heard she had meningitis.