Fundraiser for jamie

A fund raising table quiz will take place in The Stonehouse in Navan tomorrow night to help a former local resident, who is fighting back from the devastating illness which caused him to become paralysed.

Jamie Wall was a promising young sportsman until he became paralysed from the chest down. The 22 year old, who is  a former resident of Woodlands, Navan, now lives in Kilbrittain, Co Cork.
He was an up-and-coming star of Cork GAA, both football and hurling, and his career was going exactly to plan before he was struck down earlier this year.
In an effort to help support him going forward, a number of fundraising events are being planned in the Navan area by friends of the popular young man. The first of these events is a table quiz in The Stonehouse Bar, Kennedy Place, Navan, tomorrow night at 9pm. A table of four costs €40.
Jamie had represented Cork in All-Ireland finals at minor and under-21 level and started his adult county career with a Munster intermediate hurling title.
Just days after winning the Munster intermediate hurling final this year, Jamie was operated on in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, to remove an abscess from his spine which has left him paralysed from the chest down.
The abscess was as a result of an infection, not a sports injury or a car accident and doctors say it is very rare that it would cause such terrible damage.
The prognosis at present is uncertain and, since early September, Jamie has been in the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire.
His family, parents Michael and Sheila, sister Ellen, who also lived in Navan for a while, and twins, Philip and Kate, have been supporting him.
Jamie will remain in Dun Laoghaire until the middle of December and, from then on, he will have to continue his rehab on his own. It will be a slow and arduous process requiring extensive physiotherapy and gym work.
Jamie will have to make massive changes to his previous home life to accommodate this process and will also require his own rehab equipment and adapted transportation.
While a number of fundraising events are planned for Meath, donations can be made directly to: Friends of Jamie Wall, c/o AIB Ballincollig, Cork.