Boy remains critical after fall from schoolbus

PARENTS of a seven-year-old school boy last night held a vigil at his bedside in Beaumont Hospital where he was being treated for serious head injuries after falling from the emergency exit door of a schoolbus.

Barry Heslin from Co Leitrim is in a critical condition following the fall on his way home from Gortletteragh National School on Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened just as the bus was turning a bend on a small, narrow road between Mohill and Drumlish.

Barry was immediately taken to Sligo General Hospital and transferred to Beaumont a short time later.