WORLD Sports Team, a volunteer-driven non-profit organisation on a mission to provide sportspeople across the world with a supportive network, has launched in Dublin. The idea is for the network to build a member base which will provide support to those who suffer debilitating injuries through partaking in sport. Through global fundraising and awareness programmes, the charity organisation aims to reach out to the families and friends of sports people, amateur or otherwise, who have suffered catastrophic injury, as well as the injured themselves.

Founder Eamonn Sayers commented: “World Sports Team is the team every sportsperson supports. We aim to provide those who suffer catastrophic injury playing sport with a willing hand to help them through whatever difficulties they face. My cousin suffered a catastrophic injury playing sport and from my experiences I realised there has to be a better way of supporting fellow sports people.”