HIS LIFE MAY no longer be in danger, but Gaelic footballer Mark McGovern’s difficulties are far from over.
The Fermanagh native suffered a serious brain injury upon being struck by an opposition player during his first match for a San Francisco-based GAA club a little over a month ago. He then slipped into a coma, only to regain consciousness weeks later.
According to Irish Central’s James O’Brien, the bill for McGovern’s treatment already exceeds $1.1m, with costs only likely to increase as he begins a lengthy course of specialised treatment:
“Mark McGovern spent five weeks in San Francisco General Hospital intensive care unit in a critical condition. During this time, Mark suffered a severe bout of pneumonia along with infection from the MRSA bug. Both conditions were considered life-threatening, but… [he] overcame both and has recently started an intensive course of rehabilitation.”
The police have identified a suspect in the assault, also from Ireland, but pending legal action, the family of the inter-county star have moved to establish a charitable fund in the injured player’s name. Details can be found at www.support4markmcgovern.com.
Congrats to Cuala, great club,great hurlers.Well done all .
Delighted for cuala, big boost for Dublin hurling as well.
Well done Cuala who were the better side and to give a hammering to give the killkenny side.Definetely standards have dropped a bit in killkenny over the last few years.
You were so excited to see a kilkenny side getting beaten you couldn’t even write your comment properly, trot on ya fool
Well Done Cuala Mick Holden would be a proud man tonight
@Anthony The only smell of shite is from you and your killkenny arrogance LOL
You are gas john a really funny guy you’d be great craic on the cheap booze in lars
Who knows we might meet up some time Ant ??looking forward to it already LOL
Yeah that might be a bridge too far, but who knows who knows
@anthony “Tak a ruing jup ya arrogant killkenny prik”i made a fair comment like it or lump it ha ha ha.
Fair play to you John even reading your comment there’s some smell of sh*te off it go back to bed now it’s early