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I’m lucky to be alive Leading GAA stalwart injured cutting wood with chainsaw
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A LEADING GAA figure in East Cork is lucky to be alive after he was injured while cutting timber with a chainsaw.
■ Audrey Ellard-Walsh SHANDON residents are calling for the keys to the former Cork Butter Exchange arguing that they could open and operate the venue for a fraction of the cost of the various multi-million euro proposals which have been sidelined over the years. Members of the Shandon Area Renewal Association have grown tired of seeing the padlocked building lie idle and are calling for vital work to be completed immediately to allow them put it to use. Tadhg McCarthy argues that locals would support any City Council project but a multi-million euro plan may never get the green light, while volunteers could have the centre up and running, generating tourism revenue, almost immediately. ■ See Pages 10 and 11 for more.
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John Arnold recovering at home after being injured in a chainsaw accident.
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Farmer, writer, poet and historian John Arnold from Bartlemy sustained two bone fractures and had bone chipped off his eye socket in the incident. He was cutting up ash trees when the chain bounced up a n d h i t h i m o n t h e b ro w , above his left eye. He said: “Last Monday I had a terrible accident involving a chainsaw coming in contact with my head while cutting timber. I suppose I was very unlucky that the accident happened but I am very lucky to be still alive. I heard one of the doctors who attended me say ‘If (the wound) was a centimetre to the right it could have been fatal’.”
Writing about the incident in his weekly Evening Echo column today, John said he has been using a chainsaw for more than 40 years, but admitted he wasn’t wearing protective headgear at the time. “The chain just seemed to bounce or kick up and hit me on the brow barely above the left eye, my good eye. I knew it was a very serious injury but luckily I didn’t fall and managed to stem the flow of blood quickly. “On Monday night a CT scan revealed two bone fractures and a few pieces of bone chipped of f the eye socket bone. A centimetre to the right and the eye would have been gone. “Under local anaesthetic I got repaired and stitched. My head aches, my face aches, my jaw and teeth ache but I am alive.” ■ See Page 21 for more.
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