‘Phenomenal’ couple dedicated lives to caring

AN elderly couple who devoted their lives to caring for their brain-injured son and who lost six other children to cystic fibrosis are Ireland’s Carers of the Year.

Paddy and Anne Peppard from Trim, Co Meath, who have three other grown-up children, provide care for their 42-year-old son, Leslie, now confined to a wheelchair.

Leslie was knocked down by a car when he was just four years old and his parents, now in their 70s, care for him round-the-clock.