The family of Siobhan Cattigan, a Scotland Women’s rugby player who died aged 26, have joined the brain injury lawsuit against the game’s governing bodies.
Cattigan passed away last November, with no cause of death given at the time. However, in a harrowing interview with the Sunday Times, her parents, Morven and Neil, have revealed how "something catastrophic had happened to Siobhan's brain". Raising concerns over the support and welfare Cattigan received after suffering head injuries in February 2020 and April 2021, the report added that “it had got to the point where she could no longer live with the pain in her head and Siobhan succumbed to an irrational thought and impulsive action”.
“As time went by, I likened it to dementia, because I couldn’t think of anything that would change a personality so massively, something that completely alters you as a person,” Cattigan's mother, Morven, told the Times. She added: "Siobhan was crumbling before our eyes and something catastrophic had happened in her brain”. The damning report accounts how Siobhan suffered head injuries in training and then a match against Wales within the space of 14 months.
