Councillor: I’m lucky to be alive

A COUNTY councillor spoke for the first time yesterday of how a drunk driver nearly killed him in a pile-up on a Spanish motorway.

“I’m certainly very lucky to be alive. I was able to walk out of the car, but I had a chronic pain in my stomach. I subsequently found out I had been operated on for a ruptured artery going into my intestine,” Jim Daly said.

The 33-year-old councillor from Clonakilty, Co Cork spent two days in intensive care and nearly two weeks in a Spanish hospital. He left the hospital which is in the Alicante region yesterday, but is still waiting for medical experts to give him the all-clear to fly home.