Baby Elie’s mercy flight dash to United States from Ireland

Is it standard to wait this long before treating the condition? Now is better than never, but a younger child wouldn't remember as much. It does sound like the little girl had a number of problems, so I hope they were taken in order of necessity. I've talked to many people who don't remember very far back, but I clearly remember things before my first birthday. I was not healthy and I remember the pain clearly and after that, the fear and knowledge that the pain was returning, back that far. Those are not fun as "first memories." Hopefully, they will use an amnesia-producing mix of drugs when they lighten the coma. The plane ride over will have been a lark. She's got new sights and new sounds, and people she knows. Good hospitals like Boston's know how not to scare children and how to use amnesia drugs in the little ones. I'm glad they can repair the problem, cause those parents have had their hands full. Maybe one of the wealthy Irish private-jet owners (yes, there still are some) can take Daddy there for Christmas and bring him home, and one of the always wealthy private-jet owners in the US can bring the girls all home in March, just for fun. If not, then the same plane should return to get the girls in the family. With both girls healthy and active, the parents will really know what it's like to have their hands full, but they'll have fun.

All the best to the child and family...A salute to the air crew flying the baby to Boston

thoughts and prayers are with the Madden family..God bless.

Much more approriate use of Irish governmant aircraft than ferrying Mary Harney to Mayo to open an off-licence or John O'Donoghue around Europe like the Sultan of Brunei. It appears that Mr Kenny has put in place a lot of restrictions on the use of Aer Corps planes and helicopters in an effort to save Irish taxpayer money and I would imagine to make ministers a little more humble. They did shoot themselves in the foot on that front by granting themselves the use of bus lanes, but at least that is not costing anything. Also noticed since March that the few of them that I have encountered, are a lot more frugal when it comes to their department's choice of hotel at least on visits to New York.