Marie

Yes, so when my phone rang, it was actually off my son's phone number and then a woman answered and she just told me my son's after being attacked.

So obviously I jumped in my car and raced down and he obviously was on the ground withholding his arm.

The colour in his face was gone and they just explained to me that he got attacked.

Now they obviously rang the ambulance and everything like that but I just got him into my car and raced down to Portlaoise.

I thought because he's type 1 diabetic, I thought he might have passed out or had like a serious low.

So I knew there was something wrong the minute I heard another woman's voice.

And obviously, as I went down, there was a lot more worse than what I thought it was.

I thought maybe like, you know, he got, you know, a few boxes or stuff like that, which he did, but it was a lot more worse than, you know, I intended to see.

I don't know if you don't know, because they're a town, Tesco, so the playground, it's about seven or eight minutes.

So we rushed down there and as you can imagine, his face was absolutely pale.

His lips were purple.

I was in a panic.

I just spoke down crying when I seen him.

His girlfriend and the people that were there, they were very upset as well.

They couldn't believe what actually happened to him.

And thank God, I'm so grateful that there was other adults there that were able to break it up.

Yes, he couldn't move his arm.

He was absolutely not able to move his arm.

He was in so much pain.

He could barely stand up.