'Calvin jumped..and he went straight through the roof feet first'

A SCHOOLBOY suffered fatal head injuries after falling through the Perspex roof of the smoking area of a pub, an inquest had heard.

- SEAN MCCARTHAIGH

Calvin Curley-Gray (11) was pronounced dead at Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street in Dublin on September 19, 2022.

The young boy a 6th class pupil at Redeemer Boys' National School in Dundalk, Co Louth and the second eldest of four children had been brought to the hospital by air ambulance 15 days earlier after the incident at Uisce Beatha pub on Clanbrassil Street in Dundalk.

A sitting of Dublin District Coroner's Court yesterday heard Calvin died of traumatic brain injury due to a fall from a height on to a concrete floor.

In a written statement provided to a specialist Garda interviewer, another young boy described how a group of friends had taken a bus into the centre of Dundalk earlier that afternoon.

The inquest heard some of the boys had bought orange drink in a shop that had been out of date which they threw back into the premises.

The boy said the group then went through a rusty gate and climbed up metal steps on to a roof but he went back down as he did not feel it was safe.