Family’s bedside vigil continues for beaten 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.

For John Franklin, the traumatic journeys have been going on since his 23-year-old son, Denis, was attacked in Cork city centre on February 17 last.

Denis Franklin, a Cork Institute of Technology student, remains unconscious at Cork’s University Hospital.