The three lives of Mark Pollock

On November 13, as darkness falls, thousands of people will run through Dublin, Belfast Cork, London and Manchester to raise money so that one day the paralysed might walk.

With pop-up events worldwide, Run in the Dark was conceived by the blind extreme sports enthusiast, Belfast-born Mark Pollock, who became paralysed when he fell from a second-storey window. He was determined to make something positive out of his misfortune.

“I’ve had three lives,” says Mark, when we meet at his home in Ranelagh. “There was the life before blindness, the life after blindness and before the paralysis, and now the blindness and the paralysis.”