Friends rally to raise funds for John’s care

FRIENDS and neighbours of an Irishman who was assaulted outside a bar in America are raising the $11,000-a-day care he needs after his insurance ran out last week.

John Brennan, 20, is recovering in Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut after being assaulted while waiting for a taxi outside an Irish bar last week.

Hospital care for Mr Brennan, from Clara in Kilkenny, could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But family and friends have clubbed together to organise fundraising events to help meet the mounting bills as he remains in intensive care.