Family must raise €300k to send Megan for life-saving surgery in US

IT should have been a time for celebration with the birth of a baby boy, instead John and Sheila Malone are struggling to come to terms with a dire diagnosis.

On the week in October that marked Tristan Malone’s arrival into this world, his little sibling, Megan, took ill and a brain scan revealed a tumour.

“She had been vomiting and losing her balance and her speech was not 100%, so her GP referred her to Cork University Hospital (CUH) for a scan that showed a tumour. She was transferred to Temple St where doctors put in a shunt to drain the tumour and relieve some of the pressure on her brain, but a biopsy revealed she has a very aggressive form of cancer,” said Megan’s distraught aunt, Bríd Malone.