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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Conor Coyle & Michelle Cullen

Mum thanks taxi driver after act of kindness following teen son’s brain surgery

A Belfast taxi driver was praised after comforting an Omagh woman in distress after picking her up from hospital.

Fonacab driver Patrick McLaughlin picked up the distraught woman and her husband from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast after they had dropped their teenage son off to have emergency surgery on a brain tumour.

The Co Tyrone woman had been in ‘a terrible state’ before Patrick managed to calm her down, having gone through a similar situation after his father got a cancer diagnosis.

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