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So we all got out of bed and it was kind of pandemonium really.

And they were in the kitchen and they said that they didn't really know anything, but that Mammy would have to go to Castle Bear.

And I think that you were already up there, as far as I can remember.

I remember jumping out of the bed, and I remember going into the bedroom, into our mum and dad's room, and Mam was in the corner, you know, getting dressed, and she said, oh, we'll say a prayer now that James will be all right.

And the three of us, like, I was 13, Davy was...

ten and Mary was nine.

He was buried on Mary's ninth birthday, actually.

But I can remember us praying that, you know, James... And I remember Mammy saying, he'll be fine as long... We didn't have any details.

He'll be fine as long as he didn't hit his head.

So anyway, the day went off and my dad was left at home with us and the neighbours were there and then the next thing...

maybe 20 minutes later, other neighbours down the road had come to the door looking to see where Sandra and Anne lived because they did have a telephone at the time.

We didn't.

So they rang the neighbours asking would they be able to go collect them and bring them up to us.

So they knocked on the door and said, where did Anne and Sandra live?

And I tried to explain to them as best I could where A Courthouse Street was, to which they did.

They went and they got them.

And then I can remember my dad going out and Anne and Sandra had landed at that stage and we were still none the wiser.

And he went out to meet them at the front door and he said, oh, James has been in an accident.

And at that stage, they knew that he was dead because they had already been in touch with the hospital.

And