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.

Minister to talk centre safety with drowned boy’s father

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.

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