Tipperary man makes plea for help to fund surgery to stop 'excruciating' pain

A Tipperary man has issued an emotional appeal for aid to fund a surgery in Los Angeles that could make him blind but is the only alternative to the pain he is in now, writes Amy Ryan.

24-year-old Evan Hickey is trying to raise money to have a pineal cyst removed from the deepest part of his brain in a complicated keyhole surgery that will last for several hours.