‘Cannabis drug would help my daughter'

A Cork mother says she may be forced to break up her family unless she can get a treatment for her six-year-old daughter which is not currently authorised in Ireland.

Vera Twomey’s daughter Ava suffers from Dravet syndrome, a rare but severe form of epilepsy that hampers sufferers’ cogitative development.

Despite being told that she would never walk or talk because of her diagnosis, Ava achieved both, and attends Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Ballincollig.