Promising young jockey had ‘little chance of recovery’

A PROMISING young jockey sustained one of the most devastating types of brain injury in a heavy fall at a point-to-point race, an inquest heard yesterday.

Cork City Coroner’s Court was told that, no matter what doctors did, Jack Tyner, aged 19, from Innishannon, Co Cork, stood little chance of recovery from the injury he sustained on February 1.

City coroner Dr Myra Cullinane recorded a verdict of accidental death.