Heartbroken Cork family urge schools to join Christmas jumper fundraiser

Béibhinn visiting Santa in Blarney in 2019

Schools nationwide are being asked to allow their pupils to wear Christmas jumpers next week to raise funds for charity to honour the memory of a nine-year-old girl who died after open-heart surgery earlier this year.

Béibhinn O'Connor, from Riverstick in Co Cork, who had a rare congenital heart defect survived the major surgery.