Paralysed woman airlifted to Britain for treatment

THIS is after the heart-breaking moment a young boy said goodbye to his paralysed mother forced to travel abroad for rehabilitation yesterday.

After an unsuccessful seven month battle to secure a rehab bed in Ireland, Catherine O’Leary, 31, from Ballincollig, Co Cork, was finally airlifted from Cork Airport yesterday morning to begin treatment at a specialist hospital near London.

She was left paralysed after two strokes following an operation last February to remove a brain tumour.