Drowned boy could not use own armbands, father told

A father, whose three-year-old son drowned, was told the children using the hotel’s kids’ club should wait for armbands to be given out by staff, an inquest heard.

Ronan Kennedy, from Templederry, Co Tipperary, died after attending his first kids’ club event at the Quality Hotel in Youghal, Co Cork, on July 13, 2015. The inquest heard there was one supervisor for every 10 children.

His father John Kennedy was putting on his son’s armbands in the changing rooms at the hotel pool when his older son, Seán, 7, told him not to. He said the children had been instructed not to wear their own armbands.