Family of paralysed woman launch fund campaign

THE family of a paralysed woman who can’t get a rehab bed are planning to launch a massive fundraising drive to source help abroad.

Catherine O’Leary’s family said they will also examine other avenues such as the National Treatment Purchase Fund in a desperate attempt to get her the urgent help she needs.

The 31-year-old mother of one from Ballincollig, Co Cork, is paralysed from the neck down after two strokes following a risky brain operation to remove a tumour last February.