February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
One station has even erected posters proclaiming, “Smile! CCTV cameras in operation here” in an attempt to deter the culprits.
“We have actually closed off the last pump on the forecourt because it was too hard to see people when they were filling up their car,” one employee said.
Agreeing with this another, garage claimed the problem occurred roughly every three weeks but having people on the forecourt helped to curtail the problem.
KERRY: DAD A DONOR
A seriously ill little boy whose plight struck a deep chord with the people of Kerry in the last month flew to Paris last week with his parents for what is hoped to be a life-saving liver transplant operation. Patrick-Hein Van Trumpt is due to receive liver tissue donated by his father, Marc, in an operation to be conducted by a team of top surgeons on Feb. 5.
In a further poignant twist to the story, 3-year-old Patrick’s parents got married in a registry office in Limerick on Friday, but since their only child was too ill to leave hospital to attend the ceremony, medical staff at Limerick Regional Hospital held a reception in the children’s ward to celebrate the occasion.
“He was taken off in an air ambulance at 11 a.m. this morning to fly to Paris and he was so excited at the thought of traveling on a plane,” his aunt, Ornagh Moriarty, from Tralee, told The Kerryman.
The people of Kerry first heard about Patrick in early December, when the Moriarty family launched an appeal to raise money for the operation.
The family is overwhelmed and deeply touched by the response to the fund-raising. So far,