raised. A fellow rugby international and BBC broadcaster John Beattie followed Doddie over a couple of years. The result was a 60-minute BBC TV documentary Doddie Weir: One More Try that first aired on BBC Scotland On 6 December 2019. In January 2020 Weir confirmed his own participation in a clinical trial aimed at finding drugs that could slow, stop or reverse the progression of MND. He encouraged people with a diagnosis of MND to enrol in the MND-Smart programme which would trial new drugs, existing drugs and a placebo. In October 2021 a further publication, Doddie's Diary, contained descriptions of how his condition was worsening. By June 2022 his foundation, My Name'5 Doddie, had raised £8 million for MND research. On 13 November 2022, for the match against the All Blacks, the Scotland shirts incorporated the My Name'5 Doddie tartan. Weir, now in a wheelchair, and his family participated in the delivery of the matchday ball as he had when the All Blacks last visited Murrayfield in 2017. Death On the evening of 26 November 2022, his family announced that he had died of motor neuron disease, aged 52. A memorial service was held at Melrose Parish Church on 19 December, with audio from the service relayed to Melrose RFC's ground The Greenyards. Personal life Weir married Kathy Huchinson in 1997. They have three sons. Tartan Weir designed his tartan in 2018 in collaboration with Berwickshire-based clothes firm ScotlandShop, in a bid to raise cash for the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. The tartan features colours from the teams he played for: black and yellow of Melrose, blue and white of Scotland, and black of the former and white of the latter are also intended as a reference to his seven years with Newcastle Falcons. It is officially registered on the Scottish Register of Tartans, reference: 12047. Honours Weir was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to rugby, to motor neurone disease research and to the community in the Scottish Borders. He collected the award from Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture at Holyrood Palace in July 2019. Named in his honour, the Doddie Weir Cup is a perpetual rugby union trophy for matches played between Scotland and Wales. The inaugural competition was played in Cardiff in November 2018, with competitive encounters most likely to be played