IPPN

A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy whose wrists are too weak to write, due to a rare bone disease, cannot get funding to buy a special light touch laptop to keep up with school work.

The Limerick youngster’s condition is not on a Department of Education illness list, it has emerged.

Darragh Hogan is aged nine but his bone size has, so far, developed only to that of a three-year-old.