`Pain will never go`

SHANE MALLEY pulls opens the black steel hall door, a tiny baby girl cradled in his left arm. Born in January, her name is Rene, from the French word renaissance which means new beginnings.

If ever a family needed a new beginning, it is the Malleys.

Just over a year ago, their “full-of-life” son Arran died in an upstairs bedroom after he became entangled in a window blind cord. He was 22 months old. Since then Shane and Gillian Malley from Cloneen, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, have gone public with their grief, determined that “no other child should die like Arran”.