'Don’t think this wouldn’t happen to you because it can happen, it happened to us and it happens to other people,'
The sister of a motorcyclist who died in a road crash last month has praised the support he gave her when she was told her unborn child wouldn't live.His sister Louise Donnelly told Belfast Live she is raising money for the charity Air Ambulance as she gave a moving tribute to her late brother.A motorcycling enthusiast and racing competitor, Aidan – known to friends as Aidy – had won medals in the Ulster Superbike Cup Championship and Irish Superbike Cup Championship.
She shared the story to encourage people to realise that tragic and difficult events can happen to anyone, emphasising the need to support the Air Ambulance. "They told me I could have an abortion, or she would die at the end of the birth. There was no way I was going to have an abortion. A hospital in London said they would take it on, Guy's and St Thomas hopsital. At that time, I was thinking ‘these things don’t happen to me, they happen to other people’.
"He entered a race at Mondello on a bog-standard bike, with no sponsorship or anything, and he was against all these boys with big sponsors and big souped-up bikes. He finished on the podium at that race.
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