Mark Pollock’s efforts to overcome adversity are an example to us all

SOME people just put others to shame, their positive attitude towards dealing with — what for others would be an unthinkable burden — provides inspiration to all but the most mean-spirited. Mark Pollock is one such person.

mnConsider what he has gone through and continues to endure and, as I discovered on meeting him recently, gets on with it with a big smile on his face.

He has had his very difficult days. Pollock recently left the National Rehabilitation Clinic in Dun Laoghaire, where he had spent eight months trying to recover from an accident that nearly killed him, having spent months previously in an English hospital.