Roseann Brennan said: "It’s being highlighted, and without us ever knowing, he is saving lives"
The mum of tragic Jake Brennan has said: "My baby’s death will save lives."
Roseann Brennan watched in horror as her six-year-old son was hit by a car driving at 47kmph in their housing estate in Kilkenny two years ago.
On Thursday, the jury at his inquest recommended a mandatory 30kmh speeding limit be introduced in estates across the country.
Speaking to the Irish Sunday Mirror, brave Roseann said: “I feel my baby has made a difference.
"It’s being highlighted, and without us ever knowing, he is saving lives.
“Now because of what we asked the jury, and the jury saying they will send that to the Minister for Transport, he will save more lives.
"And even from what’s been highlighted through the media so far.
“We’ll still take the fight up with the Minister for Transport. Is it going to be mandatory or not?
“But even by it just being highlighted again, someone else is slowing down.
"Someone else is taking notice of it.”
Roseann and her husband Chris began the campaign Jake’s Legacy in the wake of their son’s death, pleading for mandatory 20kmh speed limits to be introduced in estates around the country.
But yesterday she said she was pleased with the jury’s verdict.
She said: “We did start Jake’s Legacy because of what we seen.
“We don’t want to see any little child with that fear in his face that our little boy had that day.
“Or for that to ever happen to a little child crossing the road and to be destroyed like that.
“It is something and I hope that they stand up and be accountable now and make it mandatory. Leave the County Councils to have it at 20 or 30, where they see necessary.
“I get why the jury came back with 30, because not all housing estates need to be that slow. To make it mandatory they couldn’t come back with 20.
"I get them, that sounds good for me.”
Roseann also spoke of how her family’s lives had been turned upside down their eldest child passed away, and the toll it had taken on his brother and sister Kaelem and Savannah.
She said: “Everything single day he’s in your mind. We sing songs in the morning. We sing a good morning song to Jake.
“Our family day out starts with going up to Jake’s grave - that’s not right.
“We had two beautiful boys and this little girl.
"She was four months old (at the time) and she can say Jake.
"Before she goes to bed at night she kisses his picture. They say good morning to him.
“It’s not fair, all they’re going to have is memories.
"We look at pictures, that’s what we’re left with.”
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