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Thu 11 Nov 2002Brother quoted selectively from death certificateThe Provincial of the Irish Christian Brothers, Southern Province, Brother David Gibson, has been unable to explain why he quoted selectively from the death certificate of a boy who died in Tralee industrial school when speaking to The Irish Times last Monday.Brother Gibson was then rebutting claims by the Joseph Pyke Memorial Trust that Joseph Pyke died in 1958 after a beating by a Brother in Tralee industrial school. Having stated that he was quoting from the boy's death certificate he said last Monday that on February 9th, 1958 Joseph Pyke had died of "bilateral pleural effusion". This he understood to mean pneumonia.