Almost €5,000 raised to help Irish medical students flee Ukraine 

The plight of Carlow student Racheal Diyaolu caught the hearts of the nation as she made her bid to get out of Ukraine helped by two Scottish landscape gardeners.

A fundraiser set up to help Irish medical students evacuate from war-torn Ukraine has now reached €4,613 with the organisers pledging to donate any unused money to refugee charities.

Racheal Diyaolu, 19, has been the most high-profile of the students with her difficult journey from the besieged city of Sumy in the east with Scottish volunteer drivers hitting the headlines in recent days.