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'Please help my child' - Boy's heart surgery cancelled for 8th time

7 year old Tommy Kinsella was born with a congenital heart defect and was waiting on mitral va...

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13.32 8 Jan 2020


'Please help my child' - Boy's heart surgery cancelled for 8th time


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13.32 8 Jan 2020


7 year old Tommy Kinsella was born with a congenital heart defect and was waiting on mitral valve repair/replacement surgery at Crumlin Children’s Hospital. 

Yesterday his surgery was cancelled for the eighth time.

Tommy’s mother Noirin joins to tell us her family's story. 


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