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14/04/2008
Dublin Lightning Stike Fatal
A lightning strike killed a 14-year-old boy yesterday.
The victim was struck in a Dublin suburb on Sunday and has since died.
Patrick (Paddy) Ryan-Corr was fatally injured by a bolt of lightning as he walked through a green space between Kilclare Gardens and Kilclare Crescent in Tallaght at around 4.30pm yesterday afternoon.
He was close to his home and was returning to his house after being out with friends.
Patrick suffered injuries to the left side of his head and exit wounds to his feet.
One of his neighbours witnessed the flash of lightning and then saw him lying on the ground. He was treated by an ambulance crew at the scene before being brought to Tallaght Hospital.
A spokesperson for Tallaght Hospital said that Patrick never regained consciousness and died in the early hours of this morning.
Citywise alternative education centre, which he attended, will offer counselling to his peers tomorrow.
He was in second year of the midschool programme at the centre, which he had been attending since last September, and was due to sit his Junior Cert next year.
(BMcC)
The victim was struck in a Dublin suburb on Sunday and has since died.
Patrick (Paddy) Ryan-Corr was fatally injured by a bolt of lightning as he walked through a green space between Kilclare Gardens and Kilclare Crescent in Tallaght at around 4.30pm yesterday afternoon.
He was close to his home and was returning to his house after being out with friends.
Patrick suffered injuries to the left side of his head and exit wounds to his feet.
One of his neighbours witnessed the flash of lightning and then saw him lying on the ground. He was treated by an ambulance crew at the scene before being brought to Tallaght Hospital.
A spokesperson for Tallaght Hospital said that Patrick never regained consciousness and died in the early hours of this morning.
Citywise alternative education centre, which he attended, will offer counselling to his peers tomorrow.
He was in second year of the midschool programme at the centre, which he had been attending since last September, and was due to sit his Junior Cert next year.
(BMcC)
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