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# second sight

Last year

2022

'March 2nd, 2014 was one of the most important days of my life'

Read an extract from ‘Ian McKinley: Second Sight: Rugby and Redemption.’

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Dec 28th 2022, 5:00 PM

28 of our favourite sports books of 2022

‘The Rodfather’ and other memorable reads.

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Dec 22nd 2022, 7:44 AM

'If things went wrong you never used the goggles as an excuse'

Ian McKinley’s world was thrown upside down by the loss of an eye – his comeback is one of the greatest stories ever told in rugby.

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Nov 13th 2022, 9:50 AM

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Breakthrough as 'bionic eye' restores sight in blind patients

A new clinical trial has given hope to people with sight loss.

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Jul 5th 2015, 8:45 AM