‘Harvey was a special person for a lot of people’

A HEARTBROKEN father buried his baby son yesterday as his partner recovered in hospital from the car crash earlier this week which claimed their child’s life.

Amid scenes of intense grief, Eddie Burns carried the tiny white coffin containing the remains of 10-month-old baby Harvey Desmond Burns from Macroom Church in Co Cork after an emotional funeral Mass. Harvey died in Cork University Hospital (CUH) in the early hours of Thursday morning from injuries he sustained in a two-car head-on collision just outside Lissarda, on the main Cork to Killarney road, on Tuesday afternoon.

Harvey’s mother, Deborah Desmond, 21, who was driving one of the cars and who was seriously injured, was unable to attend the funeral.