‘They loved feeling the same as everyone else’

Angie Benhaffhaf was leaning out the front door chatting to one of her neighbours when she saw one and then both of her sons push themselves over the threshold and on to the tarmac outside their East Cork home.

“They just escaped. They were gone. You should have seen their faces. They loved feeling the same as everyone else; they loved the freedom,” says Angie, a mother of four.

It was another in a long line of moments Angie never expected to see. Her sons were born conjoined two-and-a-half years ago and since then, the country has looked on in amazement as the boys, dubbed the “Little Fighters” by their mother, overcame one challenge after another.