A tragedy that highlighted farm dangers for our children

“I got down into the water and felt around. I’d say I had to go up and down three or four times because the water was that cold.

“Fully convinced he wasn’t in it, I decided that I’d go down one more turn, just to be certain, and whatever way my hand just turned, I caught his jumper. And I brought him up... and then the panic started.”

These are the words of Colm Higgins on the tragic circumstance of finding his young brother James in a soak pit.