The family of a paraplegic Cork teenager who sustained severe spinal injuries when she fell backwards off a flat roof at a nightclub has expressed concern that her recovery will be hampered by a lack of appropriate facilities at Cork University Hospital.

JT McNamara, the amateur jockey badly injured in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival, was transferred to hospital in Dublin yesterday having been treated in Bristol since March.

It has been confirmed that jockey JT McNamara has been paralysed after suffering a serious neck injury during a fall at the Cheltenham Festival.

Plans will be made to transfer jockey JT McNamara to a hospital nearer his family in Ireland.