Fundraising concert for injured Cork horseman

A huge fundraising concert is being planned to help a skilled horseman recover from a devastating spinal injury.

Father of four Alex Ott, 38, who runs Goosebury Hill Horses in Meelin in north Cork, was exercising a horse near his home in Newmarket last November when he was thrown from the animal.

He fractured his C5 vertebrae and was airlifted to Cork University Hospital, where he has completed the first phase of his treatment.