‘Nothing can bring back our son’

THE parents of a nine-year-old boy who died in a construction site explosion said yesterday that nothing could be done to bring their boy back.

Sean and Geraldine Long were speaking after a construction firm was fined €200,000 in relation to the death of their son, Stephen.

Yesterday Judge Patrick J. Moran convicted and fined O’Flynn Construction Company Ltd at Cork Circuit Criminal Court arising out of an incident on September 9, 2001. A barrel of wood preservative caught fire and exploded leaving nine-year-old Stephen with extensive burns from which he died.