Injured Jack: ‘I lived for sport and will get back to it, as a Paralympian’

The young Cork man paralysed after a freak accident during snowstorm Emma earlier this year has spoken of his wish to continue his love of sports and compete in the paralympics in the future.

Injured Jack: ‘I lived for sport and will get back to it, as a Paralympian’

The young Cork man paralysed after a freak accident during snowstorm Emma earlier this year has spoken of his wish to continue his love of sports and compete in the paralympics in the future.

20-year-old Jack O’Driscoll crushed his C5 vertebrae after he jumped off a three-foot fence into a pile of snow with his friends on March 1.

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