Irish student Natasha McShane, who suffered serious head injuries after she was attacked by a mugger in Chicago last month, is out of a coma.

AT Butch McGuire’s bar in downtown Chicago early on Thursday afternoon a man walks in and asks for a Bloody Mary – and Natasha’s jug.

A WOMAN charged with the aggravated battery and robbery of an Irish student and her friend was granted bail, but only if she comes up with $1 million (€750,000).

AS a young Irish student continues to fight for her life in a US hospital, a man appeared in Cook County Criminal Court yesterday charged with aggravated battery and armed robbery.

A YOUNG Irish woman is in a critical condition in a US hospital after she was subjected to a violent beating with a baseball bat during a robbery in the early hours of Friday.