‘If we look after her we’ll have her for longer’

EIGHT of the country’s bravest children will be honoured tonight by the Share a Dream Foundation’s National Children of Courage Awards.

Nicola O’Leary from Limerick is one of them.

The seven-year-old was born with a life-threatening condition called West syndrome as well as cerebral palsy. Nicola’s mother Linda said they live in constant fear of the next thing going wrong.

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