Research has discovered three people a week, on average, sustain a life-changing spinal cord injury (SCI) in Ireland, the result of either accidental injury or degenerative disease.

Brain injury support group Headway has launched a campaign to raise €2 million to fund the creation of a major trauma recovery centre in Cork.

The number of claims for collarbone surgery/treatment in Gaelic games has risen dramatically in the last four years.

The Irish Liverpool fan who suffered a devastating brain injury in an assault before a Champions League game at Anfield is showing more encouraging signs of improvement, his family say.

A teenage rugby player with French side Stade Francais has died after being injured in a game.

It was a mystery that had occupied the minds of the Irish rugby community all season. Columns were written about it. Radio chat shows were colonised by it. Hands were wrung over it. And all the while Conor

Conor Murray looks set to miss Ireland's four November internationals – the highly-anticipated meeting with the All Blacks included – but aims to be fully fit in good time for Munster's back-to-back European meetings with Castres in December.

Sean O’Brien is at the end of a long and complicated journey back towards full fitness.

Heading a football should be banned for those under the age of 18 years and should be restricted in the professional game, according to one of the world’s leading experts on brain injuries.

Irish Olympian Jonty Evans is being treated in hospital following a fall on the final day of the Tattersalls International Horse Trials in Ratoath, Co Meath.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes — some simple precautions can help safeguard vulnerable body parts from injury as we exercise more than ever before, writes Dr Phil Kieran

Bayern Munich have been dealt a blow ahead of next week's Champions League semi-final first leg against Real Madrid with the news midfielder Arturo Vidal needs surgery.

Less than one in 10 critically injured patients are met by a trauma team when they arrive at a hospital.

New reporting requirements aimed at making employers come clean on the scale of non-fatal accidents and other mishaps in the workplace, have seen the number of reported risky incidents rise by almost a third but the level of under-reporting remains a cause for concern.

"This is certainly not news we would have wanted," said Klopp.

A man in his 60s is in hospital after being hit by a brick hurled through a bus window in the UK.

I’m still nobbled on the cobbles ‘cos I hobble when I wobble...

Ireland captain Seamus Coleman will return to Everton next week to begin his recovery from a double leg-break.

Seamus Coleman could be back running in five months and must take encouragement from others who have recovered from broken legs, according to a lower-limb sports injury specialist.

A young fan who met Seamus Coleman the day before he broke his leg has written a touching letter to the Ireland captain.

West Ham are hopeful striker Andy Carroll will shake off a minor groin problem in time to face West Brom.

A barman moving large gas bottles who had his shin ripped open on a steel-built stairway has been awarded €40,000 in compensation.

A 23-year-old man who suffered a severe injury playing five-a-side football and later had to have most of his middle finger amputated has been awarded €145,000 by the High Court.

Awards for common injuries such as minor whiplash rose significantly since 2004, a report shows.

Three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slashed by glass-coated kite string used in competitions to bring down the kites of rivals, Indian police said.

The 2015 man of the match will not be able to recover from his injury in time for the game.

There is a lot of negativity surrounding the Olympic Games and the Rio renewal has been dogged with one of the worst build-ups in memory, given the doping controversy that makes many question what they are seeing writes Daragh O Conchuir

West Ham defender Aaron Cresswell will miss the start of the season after being ruled out for up to four months with a knee injury.

"This is a really bad injury but I know I can overcome it."

“It could end his professional career.”

Ba faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after suffering a horror leg break.

Arsenal and England striker Danny Welbeck has undergone knee surgery and is set to be out of action for the next nine months.

Leinster and Ireland flanker Josh van der Flier will miss the PRO12 play-offs as well as Ireland’s summer tour to South Africa, after he was ruled out of action for the next eight weeks.

The details of how the injury occurred remain unclear, although it did happen during training.

Stoke midfielder Ibrahim Afellay has sustained cruciate ligament damage and will be out for the long term, the Barclays Premier League club have announced.

Garda work injury rates, including from assaults, are 10 times higher than that of the average worker, official figures show.

The Liverpool captain's Euro 2016 hopes appear to have been ended by injury.