Cathy’s fight to make cancer drug available to all who needed it ‘an amazing legacy to leave behind’

Cathy Durkin’s three young children brought a family photograph, a camera, an apron, and story books to the altar for her funeral Mass in Dublin yesterday.

They were all poignant mementoes of how much Alex, 11, Alyssa, 8, and Conor, 4, will miss their mother, who fought to make a drug available for cancer sufferers like her.

In emotional interviews last April, Cathy said she believed the drug was her only chance of extending her life but the HSE had refused to pay for it.