A PAIR of brown eyes stare, unseeing, at the hospital ceiling. A father leans over his brain-dead son and points to a graze on his chin.

THE mother of a Limerick man who has been hospitalised since he was viciously beaten eight months ago has forgiven his attackers and prays for them.

Catherine Shanahan plumbs a family’s grief over lost son

THE father of a young man beaten unconscious by a gang still clocks up 140 miles most days to be at his son’s hospital bedside.

Gardaí have released without charge three people who were arrested in connection with an attack in Cork city which left a student on life support.