Minister in spinal brace after crash

Denis Naughten, the minister for communications and climate action, said he “hurtled” through the air and is now in a spinal brace following a cycling accident earlier this month.

He was out cycling with his wife on January 2, outside Roscommon Town, when he was struck by a car.

“I’ve had both soft tissue injury and spinal injury so no more than anyone else with a back injury they know that it takes time,” he said yesterday.