‘Beautiful princess’ Alisha Savage loses cancer battle

A brave Irish girl, who captured hearts on both sides of the Atlantic as she battled a rare childhood cancer, has died.

‘Beautiful princess’ Alisha Savage loses cancer battle
Mon, 26 Jan, 2015 - 00:00
Eoin English

Four-year-old Alisha Savage’s devastated parents, John and Michelle, who relocated from their home in Cork to the US so she could undergo specialist medical treatment, announced her death to more than 9,000 supporters on Facebook over the weekend.

“Our darling, beautiful, strong princess has left this world at 2pm,” they wrote on Saturday night.

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