Thumbs up as boy shot in head leaves hospital

SCHOOLBOY Darragh Somers who survived a .22 bullet wound to the head left hospital yesterday with a thumbs-up sign.

Two months after being hit and left critically ill on a life support machine, Darragh, aged five, returned home to Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. He was taken out in a wheelchair by his parents who once feared he might not pull through.

Outside the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, his father Gerald said: “He‘s baffled everyone - the surgeons, the doctors, the nurses, his mum and dad, everyone. At the start we thought he might not make it, but there was another force at work. I cannot understand it. It’s beyond my comprehension.”