Support group for heart defect survivors

MÁIRÉAD BROSNAN is one of many young adults living with a serious congenital heart defect. Because of advances in cardiac surgery and medication in the last 20 years children with serious heart problems have reached adulthood.

Now they have an opportunity to meet up and enrich each other’s lives with the creation of a new national support network run by and for young adult congenital heart patients.

Next Thursday, the Canadian Ambassador, Mark Moher, will launch a new support group called Grown Up Heart Children (GUCH) in his Killiney home in Co Dublin.