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Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:42

She was hit by a car when she was seven-years-old.

A midlands woman, who suffered a severe brain injury when she was a child, has made a miraculous recovery and graduated college.

Roscrea's Megan McCartney couldn't walk, talk, or feed herself after suffering brain damage after she was hit by a car when she was seven-years-old.

She has now completed a degree in business marketing and management at TUS, 21 years after the accident.

Megan, her step mother Sonja and her father Enda were speaking to Will Faulkner on Midlands Today about their memory of the accident:

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