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1st February 2019
01:19pm GMT

"When I got diagnosed initially, it was quite an emotional time because I wasn't sure if I'd live for a month, two months, six months."And somehow, somewhere along the way, the same man is then walking into a bar in Murrayfield proclaiming, "I'm still here, lads!" You see, Weir was never the sort of person you could put down easily. After launching a mammoth awareness campaign, he's now leading a bigger fundraising effort through his massively influential My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. The aim is simple:
"To put a cure on the table so people like myself and lots of others out there can live a normal life for a lot longer. At the moment, that's not possible."And the Irish Rugby Legends have put their shoulder to the wheel to help in whatever way they can too. On Friday night at the RDS, they'll host a Legends game against England (who might even be equipped with a few of Weir's countrymen too) in what promises to not just be a fine spectacle, but a very, very worthy cause. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1091316164897185792 It's part of a feast of Irish rugby over the next two days.
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