Five-year-old drowned after following dad into adult pool

A five-year-old boy on a weekend break with his parents and younger sibling in Killarney, Co Kerry, died after getting into difficulties in a hotel swimming pool on the morning he was due to go back to Dublin, the inquest into his death heard yesterday in Tralee.

A lifeguard pulled him from around 4ft of water in the adult pool of the Aquila Leisure Centre in the Gleneagle Hotel and huge efforts at trying to revive him were made, the inquest was told.

Dr Margot Bolster carried out an autopsy and found no evidence of head injury. She found cause of death to be acute cardio-respiratory failure due to drowning, she told the inquest.