Accident left student with severe brain injury

A YOUNG nursing student was left with a severe brain injury after his car was struck head-on by another car driven on the wrong side of the road by a young man who was racing in convoy and playing a game of “catch up” with another vehicle, the High Court heard yesterday.

Before the collision six years ago, Anthony Cunningham, of Ardfinnan, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, was aged 25 with a promising future ahead of him as a psychiatric nurse, a girlfriend with whom he planned to settle down and “everything to look forward to”, Liam Reidy SC said. However, that had all changed.

The accident occurred on March 4, 2001, when Mr Cunningham, with a number of friends, was driving back to Limerick where he was studying to be a psychiatric nurse, the court heard.