NI volunteer builders set to help bed-bound father of six

Volunteers from the construction charity Band of Builders have answered a call for help to adapt the home of a former bricklayer from Toomebridge, who has been bed-bound for a decade because of a rare neurological disorder.

Tradespeople from across Northern Ireland – as well as others coming across from the UK mainland – are rallying round to help Kevin McGowan, a former bricklayer who was told his life expectancy could be as little as three months when he was first diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in 2012.