Minister to talk centre safety with drowned boy’s father

MARINE Minister Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher is to meet next Tuesday with the father of a 14-year-old boy who drowned at sea 10 years ago.

Michael Davies, from Mount Pleasant in Waterford, protested outside the Department of the Marine yesterday for more than two hours in a bid to highlight his battle with the Government to ensure leisure centres have adequate safety standards.

“The journey was not in vain. It has been productive. I’ve a meeting with Minister Gallagher on Tuesday so we may be getting to the bottom of this,” the father of three said.