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Brian “Skeach” Kelly will more than likely line out for his beloved Palatine as they try to dethrone reigning champions, Éire Óg, in next Sunday’s county senior football final. Nothing unusual in that you might think. Sure hasn’t he been playing senior football for Pal for the best part of a decade and a half. Well three months ago, Skeagh was in no position to take to any football field. In actual fact his very life was under threat! Following a clash of heads in the Palatine’s clash with Kildavin/Clonegal he was left with quite a bruise on the side of his head. He went to hospital immediately after the game as a precaution but was discharged that evening and told to take it easy for a few days. That he did and was ready and willing to return to the training field. However he was still complaining of headaches and blurred vision. He thought nothing of it but the Pal management team were not happy to let him return. That first night back he was practising a few frees before training when Mick Lillis Pal’s trainer told him he was unhappy to let him resume. The club arranged an MRI scan in Dublin to make sure everything was alright and it was from there that things began to get interesting! He returned home but almost immediately was summoned back to Beaumont hospital where he was informed that he had a life-threatening clot on his brain. As he said himself, he still didn’t realise how serious the situation was. He felt fine. It was only when he asked a member of the medical team attending him to rate the severity of his condition on a scale of one to ten that it really became clear to him. She told him it was at least nine and a half! At that moment all thoughts of playing in this year’s county final disappeared from his mind! The doctors told him that if he had taken part in that training session and received even minimal physical contact, it could have been enough to have killed him. If the clot had moved as much as one milimetre it would have been fatal. He was immediately put on clot busting drugs in the hope of avoiding surgery and thankfully these were successful. Still he was not to go near a football field for at least the rest of the year, if not for ever. But once he was on the road to recovery like any GAA player, the lure of the game was too much. He was back for the latter part of the championship and apart from the unusual sight of him sporting a rugby scrum cap, everything is back to normal and he will be looking for his second county medal on Sunday. That possibility was far from his thoughts three months ago when, as he put it, “they were thinking of opening my skull!” Brian’s story may be an aside but it is just one of those things that add to the occasion of any county final. Every club has its own stories. Reasons why they just cannot afford to let this opportunity slip. I’m sure Éire Óg have their own. As I said here last week, it’s one of the things that makes a county final unique. 

A Westmeath resident and his brother, who left a man brain-damaged after jumping on his head and kicking it after drink had been accidentally spilled during St Patrick’s Day celebrations, have been jailed.

A Mayo man has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for his part in an assault which left the victim wheelchair-bound and requiring lifelong care as a result of serious brain injuries.

When Eoin Madden woke up last Christmas morning he realised he had been given the best present ever.

A garda who was on life support at Letterkenny General Hospital yesterday (Thursday) after he was struck by a stolen car is believed to be 29-year-old Garda Robert McCallion from Swinford.

A fund-raising event is taking place for a young Kilkenny man who has recently come out of a coma following a traumatic head injury which he received last year.

Following a horrific week of accidents on Mayo’s roads, two more lives were tragically lost in Ballyheane and Ballina on Thursday afternoon.

Two brothers and their cousin have appeared in court charged in connection with a Garda investigation into two assaults in Ballinrobe during which one man received serious head injuries and is being treated in Beaumont Hospital and two others were stabbed in the neck.

Guinness records are made for many reasons - the sheer fun of it, to push your body to the limit, or maybe to have your name etched in record breaking history.

In aid of two children’s charities, brothers Declan and Paul Devane and friend Gary Jennings will dive with sharks in the ocean tank of Galway Atlantaquaria between 11am and 4pm on Saturday next September 19, and Sunday September 20. Throughout the dive, they will have two-way communication units, which will allow them to interact with visitors to the aquarium. Galway Atlantaquaria will donate a percentage of door receipts to their fundraising initiative ‘The World’s Longest Scuba Dive’.