Swift action of a friend sees one man live to tell his cancer tale

Whenever Thomas Cronin is going down to the library, he pops in to visit his best friend’s widow.

On one such visit last September, he mentioned that he’d been having darting pains in his tongue.

A woman who likes her radio, June suggested he go along to a free mouth cancer screening day being held at Cork University Dental School and Hospital. She’d heard it advertised that day.