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Parents say son won’t get vision back but he’s playing football weeks later

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accident. His mum Leona Donnelly, 38, said: “He fell off his bike and the handlebar went into his eye.

“It was horrible. We first thought that he had a black eye but it’s turned out to be far worse. It’s very unlikely that he will get his vision back. “There’s not much we can do.” Ciaran, from Greenock, was taken to Inverclyde Royal, then the Royal Alexandra in Paisley and Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. He had emergency surgery and doctors tried to relieve the swelling and repair the damage.

Dad Kevin, 41, thanked the staff at the Queen Elizabeth who helped his boy.

He said: “It was an innocuous accident but it’s created all sorts of problems, including fractured bones in his eye socket. It swelled up so much and because of the pressure, an optic nerve was starved of oxygen and muscle detached from the eye.

“Now he’s lost sight in his left eye. He can’t see anything, it’s pitch black.”

Ciaran was yesterday back in hospital for an operation to reattach muscles to his eye.

The keen footballer plays for Morton 2008s side and has just returned to training after the accident which happened during the school holidays.

He was invited to be a VIP guest at a recent training session where he met the first team, including his favourite player Jai Quitongo.

Ciaran said: “It was good watching the players and to get their autographs.

“The accident hasn’t stopped me much and I wasn’t worried when it happened. It was my sister’s birthday and I got more cards than her.”

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