Girl threw herself over baby to put out fire after petrol bomb
Roisin Halligan was watching television with her one-year-old cousin Lexie in their grandmother Nellie Halligan’s Waterford City home on Thursday when a petrol bomb was thrown through the front window into the sitting room. Lexie suffered burn injuries but would almost certainly have been in a worse condition but for the actions of Roisin.
“Roisin saw Lexie on fire and threw herself on Lexie to put out the fire. Roisin is very badly burnt,” the girls’ aunt Linda said at the house in Ardmore Park in the Ballybeg area of the city.
