Mark turns birthday promise to dad into perfect Christmas gift

PROMISES are usually not worth the paper they are written on but a 10-year-old schoolboy is hoping they will make the perfect Christmas present.

Unable to afford a good present for his father Neil’s 52nd birthday in November, Mark Bennett came up with a booklet of jobs he promised to do instead, including a pledge to cut the grass, make breakfast, walk the dog, and say nice things about dad when visitors called to their home at South Circular Road in Limerick.

The budding entrepreneur then decided to look at the Christmas gift market with his idea.