And Daniel Oram, 18, owes his life to the Manx charitable foundation that helped detect his previously undiagnosed heart defect.

In May last year he attended a cardiac screening session organised by Craig's Heartstrong Foundation after spotting an advert in the Courier.

Always active and having never had health problems before, it was a bombshell for Daniel and his parents when a hole in his heart was detected.

The foundation paid for him to have further tests carried out privately. In June, he underwent open heart surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary and was in theatre for four hours.

Now after months of recuperation, he's been given the all-clear. He's returned to training on the football pitch and is hoping to win back his first team place with Ramsey.

His dad Michael, 39, said: 'We went over to Manchester for a check-up and he's been given the all-clear. There is no hole there at all now.

'Danny can get on with the rest of his life.'

Daniel has started a business and accountancy course at Isle of Man Business School, having chosen to stay in the Island rather than go across to university as originally planned.

His dad said, from the family home off Johnny Watterson's Lane, in Douglas: 'If he had not gone to the screening session, problems would have come to light when he was 25 to 30. It would start with shortness of breath and he would probably have had to have a heart transplant.'

Craig's Heartstrong Foundation was founded by Paula Lunt in memory of her son Craig who died suddenly in April 2005 from a heart defect that neither he nor his parents knew he had. He was just 25.

To compound her grief, Paula, 50, of Ballabrooie Drive, Douglas, learnt just days after her son's death that she suffered the genetic heart condition Long QT which she had unknowingly passed on to her son.

Craig's Heartstrong Foundation has since raised £200,000 to pay for young sportsmen and women to have their hearts screened for defects.

It teamed up with UK-based charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to hold two heart screening sessions in the Island in March this year and May last year during which 960 people aged 14 to 35 were tested.