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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 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 Thu, 04 Mar, 2021 - 06:50 Liz Dunphy 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 characte...

SMILING Lexi Taylor, who will be eight tomorrow, realised her dream when she celebrated recovery from a brain tumour and meningitis - by ringing a bell outside her York home. The Clifton Green Primary School pupil has undergone a torrid 10 months of cancer treatment for a rare brain tumour the size of a tangerine, which included a seven-and-a-half hour operation. The youngster also contracted meningitis - but has now been given the all-clear after treatment at Leeds General Infirmary. However, she wasn’t able to ring the bell on leaving hospital, a ritual at the end of chemotherapy or...