A three year old toddler is to become Ireland’s first ‘boy with a bionic ear’.

Little Calum Geary has been diagnosed with CNA,  a condition that causes profound hearing problems…

His parents – Andrew, a Waterford based Garda, and his mum Helen, researched the condition and discovered a pioneering new treatment – involving a ‘bionic’ implant.

Only 140 children around the world have had the implant and Calum’s heading to Manchester at the end of the month to join them.

A fundraising appeal’s been launched at the Ulster Bank in Fermoy in Cork…

For details, click on the picture above, check out www.calumgeary.com – or www/facebook.com/CalumsABI.

Donations can also be made to the Calum Geary Trust, Ulster Bank, Fermoy, Co Cork, sort code 98-57-25, account number 10516017.