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FOLLOWING an exhaustive eighteen month campaign Clonlara mother Noreen Keane has had her son Ronan’s medical card returned.
Ronan, who suffers from Downs Syndrome, lost his medical card in early 2012. His mother Noreen has battled since to have it restored and this included protests at the Fine Gael Árd Dheis. “We managed to take on the government, take on the system and win. “The amount of people who contacted me who said they were not able to stand up and fight or where notable to have their voices heard.
This was never just about Ronan, for me it was about all of the kids in that same situation. To take cards from severally ill children and give them to well children is just not fair.”