Referendum has not altered State’s culture on children

THE Rainey family have more than a few reasons to curse their luck, but they can count their blessings that they were in a doctor’s waiting room when their son Ryan turned blue.

It was two days after Ryan’s second birthday on Dec 28, 2010, when it all happened. His older sister, Molly, had been complaining of a sore throat over Christmas and the family — father Geoffrey, mother Yvonne, and Ryan — all went along to the local Collooney health centre.