Mother drove son 110km after A&E ‘fell apart’

A traumatised mother told yesterday of how she had to drive more than 110km to a Cork hospital with her injured son after he had been left unattended for three hours at an emergency department in Kerry.

Cathal Enright sustained nose and facial injuries after the nine-year-old’s head smashed the windscreen of a parked car at his home in Kilmorna, Co Kerry, on Monday evening.

The schoolboy had jumped on the car bonnet and was trying to climb on to the roof when his hand slipped and his face went through the windscreen, according to his mother, Mairéad Enright.