Tompkins: How coma nearly finished me

Football legend Larry Tompkins spent two days in a coma as a 20-year-old after a foul blow in a championship game in Kildare with his home club, Eadestown.

“It was a tricky time, a hard time for my parents. It was touch and go, being in a coma for that length of time, whether you’d come out of it,” Tompkins reveals in an utterlyfascinating Irish Examiner podcast interview, available from today.