Aoife Cogan has revealed her “heart stops” when her rugby boyfriend Gordon D’Arcy gets injured during a match.
The former Miss Ireland admits she is “terrified” he could be left paralysed after seeing other players hit with life-changing injuries.
“I watched a documentary where a rugby player was paralysed from the neck down which terrified me,” she said.
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“Gordon assured me they are thought how to take tackles and that you rarly see that in a professional game. But if he goes out during a game my heart stops.”
However Aoife insisted there is a great support system between the players’ partners.
She said: “All the wives and girlfriends are really close and no matter which player is injured the first person you think about is the partner.”
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And Aoife, who has now set up a pilates studio, finds it important to be independent as Gordon is away training eight weeks at a time.
She said: “There is a lot of time away, so it was always important that I have my own things going on.”
