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Kasey Kelly

Four-year-old Irish child loses battle against brain tumour

Kasey Kelly passed away yesterday at 4.30pm.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Irish girl has lost her fight against a rare malignant brain tumour.

Kasey Kelly was born on New Year’s Eve in 2010 and was diagnosed with Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid at 10 months.

The condition affects roughly 1 in every 1.1 million children.

Kasey passed away yesterday evening at 4.30pm surrounded by her mother and family.

In a note on the Kasey Kelly Trust Fund Facebook page, her family wrote that:

She is out of pain and running free with all her pals above, we are heartbroken but she is now at peace she waited for all the family to arrive and was surrounded by so much people that loved her, we love you darling you be the brightest star above.

Treatment

Kasey had been in the United States receiving treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

A neuro expert had been treating her to give her the best chance of survival.

Her mother, Michelle Kasey set up the Kare4Kasey website after she found out that her daughter would not be covered by the HSE Treatment Abroad Scheme.

Kasey had undergone a substantial operation in 2013 which had been paid for with €500,000 donated by the Irish public, according to an interview Michelle Kelly gave to The Irish Independent at the time.

It was also said that Kasey had spent more time in the United States receiving treatment during her life than in Ireland.

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    Mute billy Dorney
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    Sep 12th 2017, 6:25 AM

    What a great world we live in,those animals need culling,not court

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    Mute Ladude
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    Sep 12th 2017, 7:15 AM

    This is vile and a sad reality of wars. Maybe we can get a write up about the rapes happening across Europe, that are liked to migrants?

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    Mute Ladude
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    Sep 12th 2017, 7:42 AM

    @Ladude: linked

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    Mute Mike Cantwell
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    Sep 12th 2017, 7:53 AM

    Are these the very illegal migrants that O Gorman is so concerned about ?

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    Mute Colm O'Gorman
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    Sep 12th 2017, 10:27 AM

    @Mike Cantwell:

    If you mean the victims of such atrocities, yes they would have been exactly the kind of people to whom we have a legal obligation to offer protection at the time of this conflict and when they, on the basis of their religion (mostly Muslim) and ethnicity were being subjected to grave human rights violations and war crimes.

    As always, we continue to campaign for justice and reparations for victims of such atrocities and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

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    Mute Ladude
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    Sep 12th 2017, 10:47 AM

    And when anyone even mentions that migrants are causing a string of sexual assaults in Europe, we are called racist, bigots and what ever else. And women should not be oppressed, but mention anything about Islam oppressing their women and we are called bigots, trump lovers, racists… It’s mind boggling

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    Sep 12th 2017, 11:28 AM

    Good man Colm you have a lot of work ahead of you as the mostly Muslim illegal immigrants cause havoc throughout Europe , in a generation our little Island will have the same problems we see throughout Britain and Europe as the number of Muslims continue to grow here so when we have ” calls ” for Sharia , forced marriages , segregated classes for boys and girls etc etc we can thank people like yourself , everyone in Ireland who is concerned about what’s coming down the tracks needs to read Infidel by Aayn Hirsi Ali otherwise we will end up with our own Dewsbury , Molenbeek or Malmö

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    Sep 12th 2017, 1:28 PM

    @Mike Cantwell: my other comment was deleted for what ever reason. These sjw are actually happy to see the west fall into chaos.

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    Sep 12th 2017, 1:56 PM

    Telling the truth can get you into bother Lad , the looney left have no arguments / facts to justify their idiocy but rely on ” feelings ” , so as Islam gets a foothold in Ireland we will instances of FGM , forced marriages , demands for segregated swimming lessons etc etc , the left will ignore all this and talk about ” understanding ” , diversity and the usual excuses meanwhile Ireland will be divided into ” communities ” that have ruined Britain with every community fighting their corner , Ireland as we know it with its faults will change for the worse and all because those in power did not take sensible decisions re immigration

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    Sep 12th 2017, 2:34 PM

    @Mike Cantwell: we both know the right is without its faults, but the left kept pushing and Proding the right. The right started questioning their logic and pushing and Prodding them self’s, and finding many holes and contradiction in their arguments. Actually many people who were not political at all have become political because of the left dogged determination to show why they should not be in charge of a country.

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    Sep 12th 2017, 6:26 AM

    Yeah the majority of the rapists left and probably came to the UK and Ireland and got away with it.
    I hope they’re reading this.

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    Sep 12th 2017, 8:55 AM

    LIved next door to a survivor of the Bosnian war in Western Australia. He used to tell me about his and his wife’s experiences a lot. He ended up being rescued from a camp where the Bosnian Muslims were being held. To his credit, he told me they managed to be at peace and not hold on to any anger but he said he’ll never erase the cruelty he witnessed. All for what?

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    Sep 12th 2017, 8:37 AM

    Colm O’Gorman – the very definition of irrelevance.

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