Calls for mandatory screening after fourth boy dies

THERE are calls for mandatory heart screening of all schoolchildren after four young boys died playing sports in one week.

Calls for mandatory screening after fourth boy dies
Mon, 10 Sep, 2007 - 01:00
Mary Regan

The latest victim, 13-year-old Patrick Devlin, collapsed during a GAA training session in Ardboe in Co Tyrone on Saturday morning.

Efforts to revive him were made with a defibrillator that was donated to the club by the family of Cormac McAnallen, Tyrone senior football captain, who died of a mystery coronary condition three years ago.

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