Ukrainian escape: How Irish woman rescued surrogate with help of Scottish gardeners

Cathy Wheatley, centre, with her twins Ted and Elsie, 2, who were born by surrogacy in Ukraine to Ivana Holub, pictured, with her three children Oleg 5, right, Sergii ,7 and baby Ludmilla, 6 months at the Wheatley home in Co Wicklow. Photograph Moya Nolan

A Kilkenny woman has told how she was able to rescue the family of her Ukrainian surrogate from the war-torn country thanks to the help of two landscape gardeners from Scotland.

After Cathy Wheatley heard Joe McCarthy and Gary Taylor had rescued Carlow medical student Racheal Diyaolu from the city of Sumy, she got in touch with them on March 7.