Cyclist issues warning after he is injured in alleged forest 'trap'

Séan Nolan in hospital after he was injured while riding in Townley Hall Woods.

Top Irish cyclist Seán Nolan, 20, said he could have been paralysed after he came off his bicycle in what he alleged was ‘a trap’ in a Co. Louth forest.

Mr Nolan, who is a member of the EvoPro Racing team, was left with fractured bones in two different vertebrae and four broken ribs. He said if he had landed a couple of centimetres in another direction, he could have damaged his spinal cord.