'I would give anything to swap places with him', says mother of hit-and-run toddler

Two-year-old Zac Higgins incurred serious injuries when he ran onto the road while playing with a ball near Castle Meadows on the Skehard Road in Mahon in Cork city at about 4pm on Monday.

The mother of a two-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident in Cork earlier this week has said that she thought her toddler was dead when she saw him "like a little ball" on the road outside her home.

Zac Higgins incurred serious injuries when he ran onto the road while playing with a ball near Castle Meadows on the Skehard Road in Mahon in Cork city at about 4pm on Monday.