World’s highest boxing match to raise funds for treatment

IN the fight for his family’s survival no mountain is too high to climb for the man who has organised the world’s highest boxing match on top of Carrantuohill in an effort to finance potentially life-saving treatment for his children.

Tony Heffernan, whose two children Saoirse, 5, and Liam, 2, have been diagnosed with Battens disease, a fatal neurological condition, has convinced two boxing sensations to take to the ring 3,500ft above sea-level to raise awareness and funds.

Next Saturday, between 12.30-1pm, prizefighter champion Willie “Big Bang” Casey and Ireland’s first female professional boxer, Christina McMahon, will join 10 other boxers on top of Ireland’s highest peak in an effort to raise funds to fight Battens Disease.