Cork family hope pioneering surgery will change five-year-old Ali's life

Crosshaven family are fundraising to help cover the €80,000 the procedure and rehabilitation will cost
Cork family hope pioneering surgery will change five-year-old Ali's life

Neville and Laura Murphy with their boys Issac and Cameron and daughter Ali from Crosshaven who is hoping to get a ground-breaking operation called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy in the UK. Picture: Dan Linehan

A little girl from Cork is hoping to get pioneering surgery in the UK next month which could change her life.

Allegra Murphy, 5, from Crosshaven, described as "a real character and fiercely independent", has spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy.

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