Terminal cancer patient’s battle against cutbacks

Jackie Crowe, who has a rare terminal cancer, is a patient attending the oncology unit in Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, which will benefit from the weekend concerts in the INEC, Killarney.

She said the unit is smaller than her own kitchen and more services are needed in Tralee. “I hope someone will help us,” she pleaded.

Jackie, 50, spoke on the TV3 programme People’s Debate with Vincent Browne, recorded in Killarney, on Wednesday night, saying she was given three months to live when diagnosed two years ago as having neuroendocrine tumours.