Laois community comes together to build house for mum-of-two, after surviving several life-threatening illnesses

Andrea Broughan, in hospital in Co Laois

A community has come together to build a house for a mother and her young family after she suffered several life-threatening illnesses in the space of nine months.

Mum-of-two Andrea ‘Andy’ Broughan, from Arlington Estate in Portarlington, Co Laois over the past nine months has battled meningitis, two major swellings on her brain, a clot and was then hit with three strokes and damage to her spinal nerve.