Cork boy Arron gets trolley dash paid for by Sainsbury’s after successful double lung transplant

There’s nothing to top a bit of tea and sympathy — except perhaps a trolley dash and sympathy — which is what Arron O’Leary, 11, had to look forward to after his double lung transplant.

When his frazzled dad Paul arrived in Britain on December 7 for what turned out to be, literally, the trip of a lifetime, he did so with just the clothes on his back and no sterling in his pockets.

He’d been at Cork University Hospital visiting his son, who has cystic fibrosis, when the call came that a set of donor lungs was waiting for Arron at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.