VIDEO: Concussion week honours tragic rugby teen

What began as a school project promoting concussion awareness is set to go national, as a group of young people honour the memory of a teenager who died from a head injury sustained playing rugby.

VIDEO: Concussion week honours tragic rugby teen

Benjamin Robinson, from Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, was just 14 years old when he died playing a schools rugby match. He had been treated three times during the course of the game for blows to the head, only to be sent back into play each time.

He collapsed towards the end of the game and never regained consciousness. A coroner later found he died of second impact syndrome.

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