Paralympic hopes for Corkman who lost sight as a child
After battling leukaemia then losing his sight as a child, sports-mad Donnacha McCarthy thought his competing days were over. He tells CHRIS DUNNE he now hopes to compete in the Paralympics in Japan
Donnacha McCarthy with the bike he uses for the para-triathlon. He says: “I couldn’t imagine how I was ever going to be able to play sport, not being able to see.”
Chris Dunne
IT’S a long way from a farm house in West Cork to the world stage in Tokyo, competing at the Paralympics 9,792km to be exact.