Author McCourt’s family maintain bedside vigil

AUTHOR Frank McCourt’s wife Ellen and other family members were maintaining a bedside vigil last night at a hospice where he is dying from cancer.

The Angela’s Ashes author had been in remission with a skin cancer melanoma, but recently contracted meningitis.

His actor brother, Malachy, said: “He’s not too good at the moment. He was doing fine but he got meningitis two weeks ago and it turned the whole thing topsy-turvy.”