Limerick mother: 'FAI money won't replace my Andrew'
A LIMERICK mother whose only child was killed when a goalpost fell on him during a summer camp almost four years ago said the compensation she received from the FAI yesterday will never bring the 10-year-old back.
"I was pleased that the FAI took full responsibility but no amount of money will ever bring Andrew back." Miriam Gallagher told the Limerick Leader.
Her son, Andrew, died from his injuries at Holy Cross Soccer Club on August 5, 2004. Ms Gallagher received substantial compensation in an undisclosed out-of-court settlement outside the High Court which was sitting in Limerick yesterday.
The High Court action was taken for the post traumatic stress that Ms Gallagher has suffered since Andrew's death and the sports organisation accepted liability.
In March 2005, she told an inquest that she rushed from her home in Grange, Bruff, to the soccer pitch after receiving a phone call that Andrew had been badly injured. She tried to resuscitate him but he later died of his injuries in hospital.
The freak incident happened when a gust of wind caught a sheet covering the goalpost and knocked it on top of Andrew.
Ms Gallagher and her husband Pat Fitzgerald helped set up Government committees in the wake of the tragedy and now safe goalposts have to be used by all soccer clubs.
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