TV chef’s wife hopes for home after heart scare

Doctors will today conduct a scan of television chef Neven Maguire’s wife Amelda to check how soon she can leave hospital after a heart-failure scare.

An echocardiogram examination will be carried out to confirm how well she has recovered from her illness, which struck a few days after she gave birth to the couple’s first children, twins Connor and Lucia.

The twins were born in Sligo General Hospital on Feb 8 after Amelda was taken from her home near Blacklion, Co Cavan, an hour away, for a caesarean birth a week earlier than planned because of unexpected high blood pressure.