Daniel James: On this day last year, my heart stopped

Daniel James, in conversation with Peter McNamara, recalls this date last year when a defibrillator saved his life after a GAA match in Cork city

Last weekend, while in Dublin for the 1916 Easter Rising Commemorations, I took a moment to appreciate my surroundings and, most pertinently, for the life I still have right now.

At 19 years of age, it’s strange to say that. But it’s a truism, a reality.