Cries for help going unanswered
IT was clear to all the professionals involved in his case that long before 17-year-old Christopher O’Driscoll was found dead clutching a rosary beads in a derelict house in Cork city he was on a self-destructive, downward spiral.
Just weeks before his death, he had smashed up rooms in Pathways, a homeless shelter for teenagers in Cork city, and started throwing himself in front of traffic. He was also refused entry to B&Bs used by the Health Service Executive because of his increasingly chaotic behaviour.
