IRELAND
Irish Examiner

By Victoria White

Thursday, September 13, 2012

THE boy’s shoe laces were tied together.”

So I’d heard. More than 30 years ago, when I was at school in Dublin. One of my friends said it to me and I never forgot.

I hoped that it wasn’t true. And it’s still possible it wasn’t. However, now it’s been said to me twice I’m beginning to think it was, especially as the second person who said it to me was Colm Begley who was at the Westbank Children’s Home with my schoolmate when he was damaged for life by falling off a train.

Since I wrote in this newspaper about the boy who had this horrific accident on the way home from my school I have been contacted by people who remember him and Westbank Home in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, where he lived.

The detail about his shoelaces…