What Happened To Doddie Weir? Is Doddie Weir Still Alive?

Scottish former rugby union player who played as a lock, Doddie Weir, was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 2016.

Weir is still very much alive and currently lives with his family on a farm which he bought in the Scottish Borders.

Named in his honor, the Doddie Weir Cup is a perpetual rugby union trophy for matches played between Scotland and Wales; including those matches played in the Six Nations.

Doddie’s foundation has now spent £4m over the last two years – £3.5m on research and £500,000 to help improve people’s lives.

Ever since his health condition was unveiled to the public, over £1 million has been raised for Doddie Weir’s Motor Neuron Disease (MND) charity.

Doddie’s doctor had told him he would be in a wheelchair within a year, but the ex-Scotland and Lions star never left the rugby field without a fight, and he was determined that he would not give in to the disease.

Three years on, he is still walking, still going to his boys’ rugby matches, still battling MND – and on a mission to find a cure.

At the end of 2016, Doddie was told he had motor neuron disease.

His wife Kathy recalled the exact moment that changed their lives forever.

“When we were sat in that doctor’s office and he said, ‘You have MND’ it was a big blow to me. It was a shock.

“We know things aren’t going to be the same and we are not going to get that long retirement thing that we planned for.

“But at least we’ve got the time and the warning. We’ve been given this chance to make the most of our lives”, she said.

Doddie Weir is one of the best-known names in Scottish rugby history.

The 49-year-old started playing rugby for Stewart’s Melville RFC. He went on to play for Melrose in the Borders, winning multiple Scottish championships with the club before joining Newcastle Falcons in 1995.

He won 61 Scottish caps through the 90s and was selected for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa in 1997.