Caoimhe starts new chapter with hospital book

It’s just as well Mick O’Rourke is in the business of renewable energy as his daughter Caoimhe May, 12, is as close to perpetual motion as you can get.

When Caoimhe May, from Corofin, Co Galway, was barely nine years old she set her sights on writing, galvanised by the ordeal of her cousin, Aoife, who was in hospital with leukaemia.

Three years on, the book she penned, A Trip To The Hospital, has been rewritten and illustrated by her for a more mature audience and has been published by the online publisher Emu Ink.