A mother yesterday spoke of her world being turned upside down after her son was left in a critical condition after sustaining head injuries in an assault in Australia.

A Corkman who was in a coma for two weeks after an assault in Australia had just one question when he woke to find his emotional family around him: “What are you all doing here?”

The mother of a Corkman who is an induced coma after he was knocked to the ground in Sydney has said she “needs him to get well and come home to me”.

An Argentinian man has appeared in court in Sydney charged in connection with an assault that has left an Irish man in an induced coma.

An Irish man is reported to be in a serious condition in hospital in Sydney after an alleged assault.