Megan, 4, ready to return home after beating cancer

A FOUR-year-old Cork girl who has spent the past nine months battling a brain tumour will have the special honour of ringing the bell at New York’s Presbyterian Children’s Hospital, after she finishes her final course of radiotherapy tomorrow.

Megan Malone from Kilnamartyra near Macroom was given just weeks to live by doctors after she was diagnosed with the rare cancerous tumour in October.

However, her parents refused to accept this and made the difficult decision to stop their daughter’s treatment in Dublin and take her to New York.