Ballinderry Shamrocks have been left reeling by the illness that's left Aaron Devlin fighting for his life.

The 22-year-old Derry footballer remains on a life support machine after contracting an aggressive form of meningitis and club official Adrian McGuckin was in a state of shock when he spoke to The Belfast Telegraph last night:

"Doctors have said that the next few hours will be crucial for Aaron. What I heard this morning was that there was no change in his condition. The positive in that is that he hasn't deteriorated - which could have been expected.

"The shock of what has happened to Aaron has been so great we can hardly take it in. He took ill on Friday. None of us really thought that much of it.

"Then we heard on Saturday that he'd been brought into hospital for tests - and come Saturday evening at around 6.30pm news started filtering through that Aaron was very unwell, that he had got a virus.

"And by yesterday morning he was fighting for his life. Aaron was out playing last week, he's in peak fitness - he's just a big athletic fella lying there."

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