Abandoned baby and man who found him in 1965 are now 'firm friends'

Paul Murphy (left) and his friend Pat Bailey holding baby John in 1965. They were walking home from a drama group in Drogheda when they heard a baby crying.

The man who found a newborn baby boy abandoned in a phone box in freezing conditions over 55 years ago said, “we are now firm friends.” 

The baby, now happily married and a father himself, was named John.