Cork family raising funds for hospitals that saved baby twins' lives with pioneering operation

When Ciara Bowe learned her unborn twins would need surgery before they even entered the world, she vowed to show her gratitude if they survived

(Left to right) Baby twins Tadhg and Cathal Fitzgibbons, Ciara, Thomas and Séamus Fitzgibbons walking the equivalent distance of CUMH to the Rotunda in Dublin as a fundraiser for the hospitals who saved their twins' lives with pioneering surgery before they were even born. Picture: Chani Anderson

Ciara Bowe describes the journey to the scan that would determine whether her unborn twins survived major fetal surgery as the longest walk she has ever endured.

Now, five months after Tadhg and Cathal Fitzgibbon’s perilous journey into the world, Ciara is embarking on a very different walk. The fundraiser — a metaphorical trek from Cork University Maternity Hospital to the Rotunda — aims to acknowledge their frontline heroes.