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Caoimhin Adams: Belfast City Hall will turn orange for brave boy Caoimhin a year after his death

Caoimhin Adams: Belfast City Hall will turn orange for brave boy Caoimhin a year after his death

His legacy lives on, his family says, after his tragic death from a rare disease raised awareness among doctors about future cases

Caoimhin and her older brothers Dylan and Aodhan, older sister Aimee, father Kieran and mother Caitriona

Belfast City Hall will be lit up in orange on Tuesday in memory of brave little Caoimhin Adams, who sadly passed away from an extremely rare disease last year.

At just eight years old, the Newtownabbey boy became the first person on the island of Ireland to be diagnosed with ROHHAD (rapid onset obesity with hypoventilation, hypothalamic dysfunction and autonomic dysregulation).