Only son died in my arms, mother tells inquest

A MOTHER watched her only child die in her arms after a goalpost fell on him at a summer soccer camp in Co Limerick, an inquest heard yesterday.

Miriam Fitzgerald said her son, Andy was very special, as she was unable to have any other children. He was coming up to his 11th birthday when the accident happened last August.

Ms Fitzgerald recalled at the inquest in Limerick, how she rushed to Holy Cross Soccer Club, near her home in Bruff on August 5, after she received a phone call telling her Andy had been badly injured.