Mark Pollock

Mark pollock:
 Mark pollock is a man who inspires people to live their lives to the full because he cant as he is blind and in a wheelchair. Mark still atempts to take the possitives in life to the maximum. In 2002 Mark went blind in a matter of hours. Mark became blind due to a severd retina in the back of his eye. Mark had been studying economics in TCD. Mark had been a keen rower representing Ireland. Mark won a silver and a bronze in 2002 at the Commonwealth games in Manchester
   When mark went blind in 1998 he first thought that it was the end of his life and alomost gave up hope. Mark learned of the Good friday agreement while in hospital which uplifted him as he thought that if two groups of people who hated each other that much than he could continue to live his life as he is.














While being blind Mark competed in six marathons in seven days across the sahera this was a very big achievement in his life. Mark also competed in the south pole trek-race becoming the first blind man to do so he was accompanied on his quest by two others on his team , O'Donnell and Solheim the later a norwegian.
 In 2010 while at the henley regatta in England Pollock fell from a balcony, At first he was dead but medics restarted his breathing. Mark was now paralysed from the waist down from the fall. Mark spent 16 months in stoke-mandeville hospital in England before returning to ireland. Since than the mark Pollock Run in the dark has been set up in his name as Mark bids to be able to walk again. Friends who heard his story set it up because mark would be unable to travel over to America to have treatment and be able to walk without there help. Mark spends nearly every day in the gym working on getting more movement in his arms and legs with O'Donnell`. The mark Pollock run in the dark takes place once a year in November there are five different locations and many sub-locations where events are taking place. such aa Dublin , Belfast , Paris , Tokyo and Las vegas