THE public’s help is being called on for two very different appeals this week – the bid to raise funds to secure an air ambulance to bring home injured huntsman Rickie Healy who suffered very serious spinal injuries in a swimming pool accident in Spain and Jonty Evans’ appeal for funding to help him buy his Rio Olympic partner Cooley Rorkes Drift.

Rickie Healy is a talented young sportsman, who was about to take up his new job with the Galway Blazers as whipper-in this autumn.