Mother was ‘willing son to live’ in ambulance

The distraught mother of teen Andrew Clarke has revealed how she “willed him to live” as she rode with him in the ambulance to Tallaght Hospital.

Andrew, 16, the son of popular restaurant owners, Sallyanne and Derry Clarke, suffered severe brain injures when a car he was working under fell on him and crushed him in the garage at the family home.

The couple, who have owned and run the award-winning L’Ecrivain in Dublin for 23 years are now planning his funeral and trying to come to terms with the tragedy.