16/11/2015
On Sunday the 25th of October 2015, Daniel Flaherty was one of 80 Boxers waiting with eager anticipation to become a Scottish Novice champion.
Daniel would have been one of the fittest boxers boxing in the finals. Having boxed before a few years ago, and taken a break from the sport, Daniel had trained solidly for 12 weeks and was well prepared.
After an extremely close competitive bout in his 75kg final, Daniel lost on a computer selected split decision.
Some 10 minutes after the bout Daniel took a seizure and his coach immediately got the doctors to provide Daniel assistance.
It transpires that Daniel had a suffered from a bleed on the brain. He was subsequently rushed to hospital and underwent life-saving emergency surgery on the same evening.
After coming through this, Daniel had to undergo further emergency surgery two nights later to relieve pressure on his brain. He also had a significant piece of his skull removed during this second operation.
The last two weeks have been a very challenging period for Daniel and his family. At a number of points over the first week his condition was critical and the outcome unknown.
Currently Daniel is making some positive steps to recovery albeit his recovery will be slow and the extent of his recovery is as yet unknown.
As I am sure all of you reading can imagine, this has had a catastrophic effect on Daniel and his family.
As Chairman, I have given a personal undertaking, on behalf of the Boxing Scotland family, to provide as much care and support as we can.
The whole Scottish Boxing family needs to rally together at this time to support Daniel and his family.
I have sought permission from Daniel’s family to release this statement and also respectfully asked if we can start to raise funds to aid Daniel and his family in his recovery.
We have set up a Just Giving page to allow for this and will contact all our clubs in due course to look at ways we can work together to raise funds. The page can be accessed by clicking on the photo of Daniel below.
Please share this appeal as far and wide as you possibly can.
Yours in Boxing
Richard Thomas
Chairman
Boxing Scotland Limited.
We're raising money to assist Boxer Daniel Flaherty's recovery because he suffered a potentially fatal head injury.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
