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25th February 2019

Appeal For Wetsuit To Help Rehabilitate Young Woman With Brain Injury

The family of a young woman with a brain injury are seeking a specialised wetsuit to continue her water therapy, as BreakingNews.ie reports.

Aisling Brady (28) from Trim, Co Meath was working as a teacher in Dubai when she experienced a pulmonary embolism resulting from deep vein thrombosis in late 2017 — causing her to lose her speech and sight, and most movement of her arms and legs

Since her return to Ireland in January last year she has made some progress, particularly via hydrotherapy in the National Rehabilitation Hospital’s temperature-controlled pool.

Now Aisling's family are reaching out to obtain a wetsuit so she can continue her therapy in a standard swimming pool closer to her home.

BreakingNews.ie has more on the story HERE.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago