Appeal to send autistic boy to Wales

DISABILITY rights campaigner Kathy Sinnott yesterday set up a fundraising appeal to send an autistic child to a specialist centre in Wales.

The appeal was launched outside the Four Courts after the High Court ruled that Annette and Colm O’Carolan did not have to pay legal costs in taking a case against the State.

The O’Carolans lost their case last week after Justice John MacMenamin ruled that a centre in north Dublin fulfilled the State’s obligations regarding the education and care of Lewis.