Shot six-year-old back at school

Darragh arrives at school with his mother

The six-year-old boy seriously injured in a shooting incident four months ago has returned to school.

Darragh Somers was shot in the head as he played at Mullinaskea Primary School near Enniskillen on 22 April.

He spent two months in hospital recovering from two lengthy operations after being struck by a bullet fired from a .22 rifle.

A 70-year-old man arrested in August in connection with the shooting was released pending police reports.

Darragh's father Gerald said his son was coping well with the return to school.

"It's great because we didn't really know what way he'd take it, whether he would be nervous or apprehensive," Mr Somers said.

"Maybe it would come back to him, the incident that happened, you know whether he would bring that back into his mind again."

However, Mr Somers said he did not seem to have had any problems.

Darragh, said by his headmaster Bernard O'Connor to have made a "miraculous recovery" from his wound, starts the new school term in primary two.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is to decide whether the pensioner arrested over the shooting should stand trial.