Golfer helps make a wish

LITTLE Adam Campion put on his favourite cowboy suit yesterday for a showdown with golf sharpshooter, Padraig Harrington at the Irish Open in Adare.

Adam 5, who suffers from a rare cancer helped the golf champ launch a new fund raiser for Make a Wish Foundation which sends sick children on special trips abroad.

Adam was diagnosed with the rare cancer when 17 months old and in December 2006 doctors felt he had only months to live.

But Adam is a battler and some months ago travelled to Florida to meet his hero, Woody the Cowboy on a Make-a-Wish Foundation trip. His mother, Sinead Campion from Cappamore, Co Limerick said: “Adam has recently completed a new form of radiotherapy at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin and he has surpassed all the expectations of his medical team. He is doing wonderfully and started at Bilbao National School last September. He’s thrilled at meeting Padraig today. But I have to confess his big sports heroes are Peter Stringer, Jerry Flannery and Paul O’Connell.”

Susan O’Dwyer of the Make a Wish Foundation said the project launched yesterday involves recycling mobile phones. They arrange collection. To give over old phones to the charity contact 1890 890 890.