IRISH super group The Corrs were smiling yesterday after their highly emotional concert on Monday made more than £104,000 for one of the region's hospitals.
The family group held the charity gig at the Telewest Arena, Newcastle, in aid of the city's Freeman Hospital, where their mother, Jean, died of a rare lung disease in November 1999.
The money will go towards a research centre into lung disease at the hospital. A further £3,520.89 was raised by a bucket collection on the night for the British Lung Foundation, which also funds lung research.
Jean Corr, who was 57, died from Cryptogenic Fibrosing Alveolitis, in November 1999, while she was awaiting a lung transplant.
The family had brought her to Newcastle from her home in Dundalk, County Louth in Ireland in the weeks before her death
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