A Bailieboro native is swimming 1km each and every day of this month to raise funds for the Cavan Hospital Special Care Baby Unit.
Aaron Hynes has been completing a January challenge for the past 5 years since his little boy Harry was born 10 weeks prematurely.
The Bailieboro school teacher says the nurses and doctors in the Cavan baby unit literally saved his life as unfortunately his lung had collapsed shortly after his birth. Since then Aaron has been raising funds for the unit. This year he has been swimming 1k a day and will continue until the end of January when he will have completed 31km.
Aaron says the funds raised go directly to the unit which he says is a way for him to give back in some small way for all the great work that the local facility does. A GoFundMe page has been set up to held raise funds fro the unit, Aaron has already raised over 4,000 with his other challenges that he has taken on.
