Schoolboy gets €21k for near drowning at aquatic centre

A schoolboy nearly drowned four years ago in a Dublin swimming pool in an incident described as every parent’s worst nightmare.

Barrister Tracy Ennis Faherty told the Circuit Civil Court that Callum Mahon, 11, had been at the National Aquatic Centre in Blanchardstown in July 2011 when the accident happened.

Callum, who was seven at the time, and his father, Gareth Mahon, took two different slides into the pool, believing that they would enter the water at the same time and place.