Irishman still unconscious after savage Sydney attack

NEUROLOGICAL tests were being carried out yesterday at a hospital in Australia on a 23-year-old Irishman, amid fears that he may have suffered brain damage during a savage attack by three men.

Irishman still unconscious after savage Sydney attack

David Faktor, a spokesman for St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, said John Counihan was in a “serious but stable condition”, but not conscious.

Mr Counihan, from Castlecor, Mallow, Co Cork, was attacked last weekend outside the Royal Hotel in Bondi, after an apparent row at a pool table.

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