Girls have ‘overcome all odds’ in bids to walk

Two girls with cerebral palsy who have each undergone surgery in their bid to walk without aids have jointly won a People of the Year award for their bravery.

“Kayley was six and still not able to stand or walk,” said her mother, Jacky Dunne. “She couldn’t use a walking frame and was in a wheelchair the whole time.”

Now she is walking on her own. “It’s like [my legs] are loose and when I walk now I walk on my own just the way other people do,” said Kayley, 8, from Navan, Co Meath.