SPORTSMAN ROY RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR
19-year-old student was unconscious after accident on Dublin street
A WELL-KNOWN Wexford sportsman is lucky to be alive after being struck by a car in a horror accident in Dublin last week.
19-year-old Roy Nunn from Mayglass was rushed by ambulance to the Mater Hospital with injuries described by gardaí as ‘critical’ following the accident on Drumcondra Road Upper, near the Griffith Avenue and Homefarm Road junctions, shortly after 4 a.m. last Wednesday morning.
A hurler and footballer with St Anne’s GAA Club in Rathangan, Roy was walking in the area when a car collided with him, causing serious injuries. The male driver of the car was uninjured.
An investigation is being carried out by gardaí, who appealed for witnesses to the accident. The road was closed in both directions to allow a forensic examination to take place.
Roy, a second year student at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Cathal Brugha Street, was unconscious after the accident but later regained consciousness and was receiving treatment for his injuries in the Mater, where shocked family members, including his mother Bernie, travelled immediately from Wexford to be by his hospital bedside.
‘He’s off the danger list. He is very very lucky,’ said a representative of St Anne’s GAA Club where the former underage St Martin’s GAA player is a talented hurler and footballer.
During the summer, he won a Wexford District hurling medal with St. Anne’s.
‘He is a phenomenal athlete’, said the club official of the young Wexfordman who excels on the hurling field despite the fact that he doesn’t have a right hand. Two years ago, Coiste na nóg presented him with a Hurling Skills Achievement Award in recognition of his skill as a free-taker and scorer and his unique style of lifting the sliothar, perfected over many years.
Fellow St. Anne’s players who are working or studying in Dublin have visited Roy in the Mater Hospital to wish him a speedy recovery.
The sportsman has worked as a children’s coach at GAA summer camps and hopes to work with disabled children in sport when he is finished college.