Lifting his eight-year-old daughter doesn’t knock a feather out of John Butler, but why would it when she weighs just two-and-a-half stone.

THERE are many unfortunate children who make headlines for all the wrong reasons, the best bits of childhood stolen through some tragic mishap at birth.

Alex Butler is tetraplegic. Her physical disability means her body can be like jelly and her limbs are stiff. She gets around in a wheelchair.

Gardaí in the town of Dunmore East in Co Waterford have called on the public to help them trace the whereabouts of 30-year-old local Shane Fitzgerald from Kilmacleague.