Calum hears his family with ‘bionic ear’

After three years of silence, this little Cork boy finally experienced something most of us take for granted — the ability to hear his parents and brothers.

The electrodes in Calum Geary’s new “bionic ear” were tested while he was unconscious at the University of Manchester Hospital in England on Wednesday to check what stimulus responses resulted.

But yesterday, with his family by his side, specialists put the little Ballyhooly native’s new device to the test while he was awake.