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More than two-thirds of parents believe schools and sports clubs are not protecting their children from the effects of concussion.

Concussion is a “very hard injury” to deal with because people can’t see any physical symptoms, warns Tipperary hurler and All-Ireland man of the match, Seamus Callanan.

Journalism student Micheál O’Mahony meets former model and actress, Olivia Cronin, whose incredible journey following an acquired brain injury reveals a brave woman whose determination to be a victor over - rather than a victim of - her fate is an example to us all.

MARIE Heffernan’s twins were born 14 weeks early. They had been due on September 9.

Sports players are risking their lives because of the lack of a cohesive strategy to deal with concussion, the chair of the Oireachtas health committee has warned.

From the ashes of illness, a remarkable artistic talent has emerged.

Michael Schumacher is showing “small, encouraging signs” that he may wake from his coma, more than two months after a ski crash left the Formula One champion with severe head injuries.

Andre Villas-Boas put Hugo Lloris’ long-term health at risk with his “dangerous” and “irresponsible” decision to let the Tottenham goalkeeper play on at Everton after being knocked unconscious by Romelu Lukaku, according to brain injury charity Headway.

My role is to optimise the independence of stroke patients.

ON behalf of Headway, the national association for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), I would like to express my disappointment at the apparent mismanagement of funds in relation to the care of brain-injured patients in the public health system as highlighted in your report headlined ‘Security bill for patient heading for €1 million’ (September 13).

A £50 (€61.05) penalty may have to be paid by parents of young cyclists in the North who do not wear safety headgear, it was revealed today.

GARDAÍ have been given High Court approval to break into the lavish home of Howard Holdings king-pin Greg Coughlan, if necessary, to arrest him over unpaid loans of more than €28 million.

THE majority of head injuries being treated at A&E departments in Dublin are the result of weekend violent assaults which have surpassed road traffic accidents.

The BBC has apologised to brain injury sufferers after Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson referred to crash victim Richard Hammond as “a mental”.

PATIENTS with potentially lethal brain disorders have to wait up to two years for specialist treatment because of a chronic shortage of neurologists in Ireland.

West Cork man Greg Coughlan has made his mark as one of the country’s leading developers as chief of Howard Holdings with major projects at home and abroad, reports Kyran Fitzgerald.

CHRISTIAN SCULLY died two years ago, aged 28, nine months after a vicious street attack left him in a coma. But yesterday, his family and friends gave a new lease of life to other serious brain injury sufferers.

Headway Software has announced that its reverse engineering product, Headway reView, has won the Crossroads A-List Award for Software Visualisation and Comprehension.