Kieran goss for stockhouse

Kieran Goss will play in the Stockhouse Restaurant in Trim in a fundraising gig for the Lorraine O’Brien Trust tomorrow night.
Friends of Lorraine O’Brien have rallied round the Trim mother of two - who is paralysed from the chest down - and are hoping to raise funds to send her to attend a facility in the USA called Barwis Methods, which has been successful in helping people with spinal cord injuries to walk again.
The trust needs to raise in excess of €100,000 to pay for the treatment - this will cover the therapy itself, accommodation and a full-time carer when she is over there, as Lorraine is currently totally reliant on carers.
Admission to tomorrow night’s gig is €45, including three course dinner. Contact 046/9437388 to book.
Lorraine, from Newtown, Trim is a 39 year-old single mother who has been unable to walk since an operation in January 2014.  
She has struggled to find appropriate facilities in Ireland to help in her rehabilitation.
Doctors at the US facility believe there is a good chance she will be able to get up and walk again after intensive therapy there,
Lorraine’s spinal cord was not severed but was damaged, so there is hope she could regain movement. The Barwis Methods facility in Michigan has had significant success in treating cases like Lorraine’s, but there is no similar facility here in Europe. She is currently awaiting a start date for her treatment.
Donations can be made to www.gofundme.com/lorraineobrien or The Lorraine O’Brien Trust Account at Permanent TSB, Account Number: 23270172, Sort Code: 990659.