‘Playing again was all my dreams come true’

LAST October, few in the GAA world heard the story about a Carlow footballer fighting for his life.

Alan Curran had been the county’s top scorer in the championship from right half-back, was in the prime of his career and made 2011 a target year to win his first championship match with the county after five years with the seniors.

One night out in Carlow town changed everything. The details are the subject of a criminal investigation but Curran received brain injuries and went into a coma. It was touch and go for a while. The doctors feared for the worst. He lay unconscious.