Snowbound mother nursed sick child for three weeks

A young mother today described how she nursed her sick child while marooned in her snowbound home for almost three weeks.

Lisa Ni Dhomhnaill, her husband Donan and their three small children – one an eight-week-old baby – were forced to survive on tinned food and use water from a nearby stream after being cut off by blizzards in Cloughlea, one of the remotest parts of the Wicklow mountains.