Brave Mikey defies doctors’ expectations

A BOY doctors predicted would die in the womb but who has since overcome every obstacle in his path is about to undergo life-changing surgery.

Mikey O’Connor, 4, from Listowel, Co. Kerry, is one of just two children in Ireland who suffer from little-known but often fatal “prune belly” syndrome, a rare genetic condition that has left him without any stomach muscles and chronic kidney failure.

Doctors feared the worst when his mother Emma McGlynn underwent her first scan and warned her there was virtually no chance of him surviving the birth.