A young Irish woman from Bantry, Co. Cork, is currently recovering in a remote Thailand hospital following a "freak quad bike accident." A fundraising campaign has been launched by the family and friends of Ciara Twomey (22), to raise much needed funds for her treatment and with the hopes of transferring her back to Ireland. [...]
The sportswoman hit headlines on Thursday (29Jun17) when it emerged Jerome Barson had died on 22 June (17), two weeks after he was hospitalised with head trauma following a collision with Williams' SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) in Palm Beach Gardens on 9 June (17). According to a police report, Williams was found to be "at [...]
Ms Gallagher was driving on the N59 Newport to Mulranny Road when her car veered on to the wrong side in to the path of a cement truck. An inquest jury, in 2011, returned a verdict that her death was accidental. Desmond O’Neill SC, for the family, told the court the matter had been settled [...]
A Donegal man paralysed by a freak accident is going ahead with his wedding next month after refusing to postpone his big day, despite still being confined to hospital. Alan Patterson was paralysed ten months ago after an accident on a trampoline. The hockey player, who played with Instonians in Belfast, dislocated his spine and [...]
Boorman, who hit the road with Ewan McGregor in the Long Way Down and the Long Way Round, was left in a wheelchair after a horrific crash in Portugal in February last year. Recalling the accident he said: “I remember it all, I remember flying through the air heading towards the pavement and a brick [...]
He told the Press Association: “He got hit by a car back in September, the London Air Ambulance came out to him and put him in an induced coma for two days, a five-hour op to rebuild his pelvis. “He was in a wheelchair for eight weeks had to learn to walk again which he [...]
Tributes have been flooding in from the equestrian community following the tragic death of Claire Lowe (Millhouse) who sadly died yesterday following a fall out hunting. Lowe was the owner and operator of Mill House Equestrian Centre in Saintfield, Co Down and was out hunting in the New Line area of Ballygowan with the [...]
Brian Rohan of EMBRACE FARM has welcomed a Teagasc initiative launced at today's National Ploughing Championships that will provide a service to families affected by such farm accidents and tragedies to assist them cope in the immediate aftermath.The service will be on a case-by-case basis and can be accessed by the family contacting their local [...]
The family believes that the company markets a booster seat that didn’t properly protect their daughter in a 2014 crash that left her with lifelong injuries. An attorney told Action News Jax that the company should help pay medical bills as well as for the care that the girl will need for years because of [...]
Rushing to finish plastering a new house, he fell through a broken wooden plank and suffered a traumatic brain injury. “When I woke up first, I didn’t know my wife, my family, didn’t know I had cows or a farm or what I had,” he recalls in an online video. A positive attitude and the [...]