Man dies after Prague assault

A CARLOW man died in a hospital in Prague yesterday from injuries he received in a suspected mugging in the Czech capital over the weekend.

Fergal Barry, 35, from Tullow Road, Carlow, was taken to hospital early last Friday in an unconscious state with a serious injury.

It is suspected he had been the victim of a mugging and assaulted while outsocialising during a holiday in the Czech Republic.