Former Limerick hurler felt 'mentally destroyed' due to injuries at Johnson & Johnson factory

Mark Keane had gone to the aid of a colleague who had caught his hand in a machine and then got his own hand caught, court told

Mark Keane is alleging Johnson & Johnson was negligent and breached its duty towards him on September 10, 2018, while he was working as a technician making contact lenses. Picture: Collins Courts

A former Limerick senior hurler is in his second day of giving evidence at the High Court over "severe" and "emasculating" injuries he sustained when he went to the aid of a co-worker who caught his arm inside machinery at a Johnson & Johnson factory in Limerick.

Mark Keane told the High Court on Friday he felt “emasculated and mentally destroyed” because of the injury's effects, which began on "day one" and he was "not the man he was, nor the one he hoped to become".