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An Interview By Barry Egan of Ireland's Sunday Independent.

Jim Corr was six when his little brother was killed. For the first time, speaking to Barry Egan, he talks about that day.

It seems like another lifetime now. Like another world. Jim Corr can remember as a young child playing with his baby brother in the back garden. His eyes light up at the memory.

"We were having great fun with our Dinky toys together," he says. "He had a tiny yellow JCB which I thought was brilliant and wanted. We used to get similar presents. I remember we always used to have great fun running around the back garden."

Did Jim look after him?

"Because we were so young, Mammy was always looking after the two of us," he smiles. "All I know is that he was a very, very good kid, while I was the brat, the rascal."

Jim Corr can also remember the day his little brother was killed 32 years ago. He saw it happen. "I'll always have that memory," he says.

The story of the fifth Corr that the world never got to know is a truly poignant one. Gerard Corr was born on August 12, 1966. He was killed in a road accident when he was three. Jim was six. He has never talked about it before. It is a great wrench for him to do so now. We are sitting in the house in Dundalk, looking out on the garden where he used to play with Gerard.

"My brother was hit by a car right outside our house in Dundalk after he ran out onto the road to retrieve a football. He got hit by the car. Sharon was just born," Jim says. (Sharon Corr was born on March 24, 1970.)

"I remember standing at the gate with Mum after it happened. She was in an awful state. Dad lifted my brother and got in a car and took him straight to hospital. I wasn't brought into hospital. My parents stayed by his bedside. He died at 6am the next day. It was very traumatic for me as a kid," he recalls.

"I'm sure it's affected me in ways I don't realise. I was there when it happened. But the trauma I experienced was nothing compared to what my parents went through. Still, it was hard for me to understand. He was my pal."

After Gerard's death, did Jim become withdrawn?

"I think I did, to a certain degree," he answers. "I would have changed after that. It can't have had a positive effect on anyone. But it is something I deal with."

He's in a happier place?

"I wouldn't have any doubt about that. There is a saying, 'Only the good die young.' Maybe they are brought into the world for this reason, to teach us certain things."

And what did your brother's passing teach you?

"Through the course of his death, and my dealing with it, I'm sure I've learnt something, but it's for a psychologist to pull out of me. I just got on with life.

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