Mum of the Year ‘just doing what every mother does’

A WOMAN who was pregnant with her fifth child when her husband died from cancer has been named Mum of the Year.

Maureen McCarthy, 71, from Togher, Cork, was chosen from hundreds of mothers from all over Ireland for this year’s Woman’s Way Bosch Mum of the Year Awards.

Maureen, also the Munster winner, had to wipe away tears of joy before smiling for the cameras with Health Minister Mary Harney, who hosted the event at Dublin Castle.