Conor Murray book extract - Part One: 'It was very hard to watch this strong, capable man... clinging on for dear life'
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Conor Murray received a call at Carton House on Tuesday 7 February 2023 that his father had been knocked off his bicycle and taken by ambulance to a Limerick hospital in critical condition. Murray had started the previous Saturday's Six Nations game and was due to start against France the following Saturday. The call immediately and dramatically changed his life. His father, an avid cyclist, had been riding on the hard shoulder near Croom, about a kilometre from their home in Patrickswell. A truck pulling a slurry tanker failed to stop at a slip-road stop sign and struck his father side-on.
I was in Carton House when I got the call that dad had been knocked off his bike and taken by ambulance to hospital in Limerick where his condition was critical. It was Tuesday February 7, 2023. The previous Saturday I'd started the first game of that season's Six Nations and was due to start the following Saturday against France. In my world, everything was going well.
Then you get a phone call that turns your world upside down in a second. My father loved his cycling, man and boy. He'd been out for a spin on the roads that afternoon. He was on the hard shoulder of the road from Croom, only about a kilometre away from our home in Patrickswell. The driver of a truck that was pulling a slurry tanker came up the slip road, failed to stop at the stop sign and collided side-on with my dad.
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