'Nanathon' festival to raise funds for Nan’s life-changing surgery

The friends of a woman with a rare disease have organised a day-long festival to raise money for her life-changing surgery.

Titled ‘Nanathon’, the extravaganza goes towards spinal surgery for Nan McSweeney-Bailey from Ballincollig, Co Cork who suffers from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).

EDS is an inherited connective tissue disorder affected one in every 5,000 people and is caused by a defect in how the body produces collagen.