In 1948, newspapers dubbed Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin the ‘loneliest boy in the world’: he was the sole child on the Blaskets, and now is the only surviving evacuee of 1953-54, says Áilín Quinlan.

A six-year-old British boy potentially saved his pregnant mum's life thanks to advice from TV show 'Fireman Sam'.