Doddie Weir interview: 'I'm still here, I'm still fighting'

The former Scotland lock urges doctors to raise the intensity of research into MND, even as his own life becomes more challenging for him and his wife, Kathy

Doddie Weir, pictured following the launch of a fundraising effort in support of MND charities by Celtic FC in 2020

'I’m still here, I’m still fighting,” says Doddie Weir even though motor neurone disease traps him inside his paralysed body. 

Courage and hope define Weir but he is being tested as never before. The former Scotland lock, who won 61 Test caps and played for the Lions on their triumphant tour of South Africa in 1997, was diagnosed with MND just before Christmas in 2016. He has now reached a brutal stage of deterioration.