Teen fights for life after freak railings accident

A teenager who got his neck trapped in a freak railings accident is fighting for his life in hospital.

As prayers were offered at masses in Kinsale, Co Cork, yesterday for the recovery of 14-year-old Leon Connon, details emerged last night of the heroic efforts neighbours made to save him after the accident in the town on Saturday.

And it emerged that Leon’s distraught mother was one of the first on the scene.