Doherty ready to resume playing after serious concussion injury

If you got to the ground early enough in the last few weeks, you’d have seen Shane Doherty being the first Galway United player onto the pitch.

Nothing unusual about that, says you, but there was in a way, as Doherty has not been in a match-day squad for the last 10 weeks since he was pulled from the substitute’s bench for the home game against Treaty United on Monday March 14.

The US native had come off the bench to score Galway United’s third goal in a 3-1 win over Bray Wanderers the previous Friday in what was his second appearance of the season.

However, in between that goal-scoring cameo against Bray, and the Monday evening game against Treaty, Doherty was involved in a training ground accident that would throw his season unto turmoil, and more significantly, have a devastating impact on his personal health.

“I am on the mend, I got to see the right people, and the last few weeks I have really been making some progress and I am a lot better now,” he says in relation to the concussion he picked up in training.

According to the brain injury and support services website, Headway, “a concussion is a blow to the head or body that causes the brain to shake inside the skull”.

“This can change the way your brain normally works. It is a type of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) where the person is usually unconscious for less than 30 minutes. However, it is possible to have concussion without being unconscious.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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