Miracle man McGovern ‘inspirational’

THE Fermanagh footballer who was left in a coma after an incident on a GAA field in San Francisco has admitted it’s a “miracle” he’s alive.

Mark McGovern, 23, from Belcoo, suffered head injuries during a game in June and doctors fought to save his life for four weeks as he tethered on the brink of death.

“One of my doctors told me that I was 97.5% dead,” he said on BBC last night. “At that stage I really, really did think of it as a miracle how bad I was. I never even knew how bad a shape I was until I was speaking to the doctor. It was a shock to know that I was that close to death, so it’s just amazing that I even came out of it.”