Auditor to make funds from charity single for Lily-Mae ‘a top priority’

Thousands of euro raised through a HMV-sold charity single to help a four-year-old in her battle to beat cancer could still be handed over — despite the retailer’s serious financial problems.

The auditor for the Irish section of HMV has confirmed he is “acutely aware” of the Lily-Mae Morrison situation and is making the funding issue a top priority to resolve.

The Galway girl is battling stage four neuroblastoma, a rare and highly aggressive form of cancer that attacks the nervous system and is diagnosed in about a dozen Irish infants every year.