Sharon to connect with rare illness sufferers

A BRAVE mother battling a life-threatening brain illness is hoping to raise enough funds to set up a childcare facility for parents with serious medical problems.

Sharon Houlihan, 34, from Slieverue in Co Kilkenny, has already set up a website to offer support and information to people diagnosed with rare conditions after coming through seven operations herself.

Diagnosed last year with a brain aneurism caused by an inoperable Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM), she is now waiting on funding to travel to Britain for a course of gamma radiation therapy which is not available in this country.