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Dublin marathon effort by Colin Farrell and friend with skin disorder raises €500,000

Emma Fogarty is Ireland’s longest-surviving person with epidermolysis buliosa, and will join actor in final kilometres

Actor Colin Farrell has thanked the public for backing his charity marathon run for a friend with an agonising skin condition after a joint TV appearance added more than €400,000 in donations to the pot. The Penguin star is running next Sunday’s Irish Life Dublin Marathon to mark Ms Fogarty’s recent 40th birthday – a milestone she thought she might never see. Ms Fogarty, from Co Laois, endures a constant battle against the most severe form of the rare, genetic disease (recessive dystrophic EB), with sufferers currently given a life expectancy of around 30 to 35 years.

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