Plea to help Tower girl beat cancer

LAST December, days after their daughter Holly's first birthday, parents Martin and Mary O'Keeffe noticed a small swelling on the side of their daughter's eye.

She wasn't in any pain and the concern seemed unwarranted but, being protective of their second child, the couple brought her to their local GP and to Cork University Hospital, who explained they had no reason to worry.

By March, the swelling had yet to disappear, so the couple asked the same doctors to check their daughter again.