From storeroom to playroom .... teenager’s design lifts spirits of young cancer patients in Cork

A teenager’s inspired make-over of a hospital storeroom will help make treatment for young cancer patients a little easier to bear.

Emma O’Callaghan, 17, from Mallow, Co Cork, said she was delighted, as her new circus-themed family room in the Mercy Hospital’s Children’s Leukaemia Unit in Cork — the largest such unit outside Dublin’s Crumlin hospital — was unveiled yesterday.

Parents of children attending the unit said it will have a positive impact.