Limerick schoolboy, 5, overcomes the odds to start primary school

Noah Quish on his first day of school.

A five-year-old boy who has endured open heart surgery, an operation on his airway, and is due back in hospital next year for spine and brain surgery, has overcome the odds to start primary school.

Noah Quish, who lives in Monaleen, Co Limerick, is tube fed and non-verbal. His mother Una says Noah was not expected to survive her pregnancy.