'John will be cheering on his team’

THE father of the tragic Limerick schoolboy, killed on Thursday, said yesterday his son would be looking down on Croke Park tomorrow cheering on the Limerick hurling team in the All-Ireland final.

'John will be cheering on his team’
Sat, 01 Sep, 2007 - 01:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

John Leo, 12, died instantly when he fell under a lorry as it drove from the site of a house which was being demolished at Whitecross Gardens, Moyross. The accident happened a short distance from his home.

After identifying the body of his son at the morgue in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, John Leo Snr

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