As she walked across the green in their housing estate, something exploded from an open fire on the grass and flew into her right eye, which began pumping blood. “She was just walking across the field after going to the ice-cream van,” Ms Grainger said. There was battery acid in her eye,” Ms Grainger said. Ruby was brought to the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital for emergency surgery, but unfortunately doctors were unable to save her right eye. “She remembers the same cry I had when it happened, and when she was running to the house after it happened to her,” Ms Grainger said.

Source: Irish Independent October 14, 2024 18:17 UTC