US custody battle: Children’s future must be secured

THE custody battle over two children whose Irish father, Jason Corbett, died in an incident at his US home is a heartbreaking and distressing state of affairs that every family would dread. 

The plight of Jack and Sarah Corbett is all the more poignant to Irish people who heaved a sigh of relief in thanks for the fact that this upsetting case has, for now at least, been resolved by the US courts.

Having been placed under the legal guardianship of their father’s sister, Tracey Lynch, and her husband David, the children are now expected to be back in Limerick for their father’s funeral this weekend. Hopefully, if the wishes expressed in his last will and testament are fulfilled, then the children’s return to this country will be made permanent.