IRFU Charitable Trust – supporting players who have been seriously injured playing rugby [Video]

Forty-six years ago, the IRFU established the Charitable Trust to help those who experienced a catastrophic injury playing the game of rugby.

Today, the Trust supports 36 seriously injured rugby players and their families across the four provinces of Ireland.

The Trust helps with physiotherapy, medical needs, and mobility including wheelchairs, home alterations or vehicle adaptations; and just being there for them.

Tommie Kyne, seriously injured in 2005, speaks about how; “the Trust have helped myself and my family from almost the very beginning including providing me with an adapted digger so I could continue, as best I could, to farm and be out and about on the land – something that I love to do.”

Tommie is one of two seriously injured players in Connacht, with six in Munster, twelve in Leinster and sixteen in Ulster.

Garrett Culliton in Leinster, seriously injured in 1992, speaks about how the Trust helped him; “specialised wheelchairs for wheelchair …