Family's bedside vigil in Lisbon hospital

Dunshaughlin pharmacist Peter Kavanagh and his wife, El Marie, are waiting anxiously this week by their son Jack's bedside in a Portuguese hospital, after he was involved in a swimming accident on a beach in Albufeira. The Dunshaughlin and Ratoath communities have been rallying around the Kavanagh family since the 19-year-old Trinity College pharmacy student sustained a fracture to a vertebrae in his neck last Friday. He was on a sunshine holiday with a group of friends on the beach in the popular Algarve resort of Albufeira, when he dived into water on a beach but hit his head of the sand, and sustained a serious injury to his neck. To read the full story see this week's Meath Chronicle. For updates check https://www.facebook.com/SupportForJackKavanagh