New homes a lease of life to ABI sufferers

JUST 10 months ago, Sinead Mangan spent her days locked in a psychiatric ward, where she spent most of the time sleeping.

Today she has a bubbly personality, a sense of humour and a passion for fashion.

Sinead suffered brain damage when she took a drug overdose in 1993, but was only diagnosed with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) by a neurologist in 1996.