Artist who lost fingers starts to draw again

Artist Alexandra Trotsenko, whose fingers were hacked off in an attack, has started painting and drawing again with her prosthetic fingers.

When the public heard of her plight last November they donated more than €80,000 to a collection and a special art auction organised by the RTÉ programme Liveline presenter Joe Duffy.

Alexandra, 39, could not hold a pen after being attacked and robbed in her apartment in Finglas, Dublin, almost three years ago.