An Irish family are making a desperate plea for assistance after their mum suffered a life-altering medical crisis while holidaying in Spain.

Carol Callaghan, 58, from Charleville, Co. Cork, was on a shopping spree with friends in Alicante when she suddenly collapsed due to a cardiac arrest.

She was immediately rushed to hospital, where doctors gave her distraught family the grim news that she might not pull through. After spending a week in a coma, Carol miraculously survived, despite warnings issued to British tourists planning all-inclusive holidays to Spain.

However, while she is still in intensive care, Spanish doctors have informed her family that they've done all they can and that her only hope of recovery lies in specialist rehabilitation back in Ireland.

Her son Jack spoke abo

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