Stuart Mangan trust funds used to build respite centre

Funds raised for the care of a rugby player left paralysed are being channelled to charitable causes following his death, with a respite centre being opened in his native Cork over the weekend.

Stuart Mangan was paralysed from the neck down in Apr 2008 as a result of a spinal injury he sustained while playing rugby with Hammersmith and Fulham RFC.

The former scrum-half never regained sensation below the neck following his accident, but those close to him said he never lost his “zest for life”.