Court hears of parents’ despair at loss of ‘sports mad’ only son

A MOTHER sobbed quietly in a courtroom yesterday as her husband recalled the horror moment when an A&E doctor told him their only son had died from injuries received in a soccer camp accident.

Patrick Fitzgerald told the High Court sitting in Limerick: “It was like somebody had sucked the entire life from my body. I felt helpless, my wife was inconsolable.”

Andrew Fitzgerald, 10, died after a goalpost fell on him at a summer soccer camp organised near their home in Grange, Bruff, by the local Holy Cross club in August 2005.