A GAA club has rallied around a former footballer who is now facing two battles after his ongoing cancer fight left him paralysed from the chest down
Dad of two Gary McDonnell is now coming to terms with spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair on top of his current battle against an aggressive form of blood cancer which requires a double stem cell transplant.
Incurable Multiple Myeloma resulted in a tumour on his spine which led to his paralysis, despite the best efforts of medics at the Mater Hospital where he has been since June.
