A topless women-only fundraiser swim took place today in order to raise money for a young Dublin man who was injured in a freak accident in Mexico.
Matt Murphy, 26, from Skerries, suffered a severe spinal-chord injury while on a boat tour off the coast of Cancun last summer when he dived into the water and hit a shallow sandbank.
He fractured his C5 vertebrae and underwent emergency spinal surgery which has kept his spinal cord intact. He is currently receiving treatment at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire but has limited function in his arms, with no control of his triceps, hands or lower body.
