Almost €80,000 has been donated to help fund cancer care for a six-year-old boy whose suspected broken nose led to a cancer diagnosis. Last summer, Darragh Foley developed a bump on his nose that was first treated as a broken nose and re-set into position. But after bruising went down and the nose still looked broken, a doctor in Cork’s South Infirmary ordered an ultrasound and MRI which showed a mass on his nose. Three days after a biopsy was done, he was diagnosed with a soft tissue cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma, which is a very aggressive form of cancer that can be resistant to chemotherapy. “We have only been able to get to this point in treatment with amazing help from our friends and support from different charities.

Source: Irish Examiner January 06, 2026 11:41 UTC