‘I was happy to care for my mum’

MARIA MAHER’S life changed forever when her mother was forced to use a wheelchair following an accident at her Cork family home seven years ago.

Following the accident the then 12-year-old was forced to become her mother, Mary’s, around the clock carer.

Speaking at the launch of the 2010 Carers of the Year Awards the now 19-year-old college student, who collected last year’s award, said the decision to devote her life to her mother had been an easy one.