€550,000 raised for two injured jockeys

Over €550,000 has been raised for two injured Irish jockeys both left paralysed after falls within weeks of each other.

Some of the top names in horse racing took part in the star-studded fundraiser at Greenmount Racecourse in Limerick in aid of John Thomas McNamara and Jonjo Bright.

Limerick man JT McNamara, aged 38, suffered vertebra fractures in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival in March which resulted in paralysis from the neck down.