Campaign to save Holly’s life receives more than €50,000

THE family of brave toddler Holly O’Keeffe, who is fighting life-threatening tumours, has received more than €50,000 in public donations.

Since the 20-month-old girl was diagnosed in March with three cancerous tumours behind her eye, cheekbone and kidney – the largest of which was initially the size of a grapefruit – hundreds of public and private individuals have sought to help her family.

The toddler, who has a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma and was at one stage given a one in three chance of survival, is being treated between Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin and the Mercy University Hospital in Cork.