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At the age of 14, Derek Byrne was carried into a Dublin hospital, laid out on a mortuary slab and declared dead.

His jugular vein had been slashed by shrapnel from a car bomb outside the petrol station where he worked, his hip and thigh bone were broken, he had a fractured leg and his face was a mass of lacerations.

Doctors had searched for his pulse and found nothing.