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EPISODE · Apr 18, 2016 · 4 MIN

'He's just a miracle' - Proud mum raises £60,000 for Altnagelvin hospital

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He was born 14 weeks premature and was so tiny that his father's wedding ring could fit around his arm. Daniel O'Connell weighed just 2lbs and the odds were stacked against him. But he pulled through and twenty years on he is set to graduate university. His mum Sinead says without the support she received in the Neonatal unit at Altnagelvin hospital she would have been lost. She has spent the last two decades raising money for the unit, so far she's raised £60,000, Sinead has been speaking to reporter Anna Quigley...

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