‘He is doing unbelievably. It is down to his personality’

Cullen Kennedy brings more than a packed lunch when he goes to school every day.

The 10-year-old has to pack all his medication and a special ventilator as well as the normal load for a child attending primary school.

Once a lively boy, he is now confined to a wheelchair, on a ventilator and requiring 24-hour care. And he still does all his homework.