Irish backpacker survives fall from three-storey hostel

A 26-YEAR-OLD Dundalk man was in a serious but stable condition in a Melbourne Hospital yesterday after falling three storeys from the roof garden of an Australian hostel.

Backpacker Bryan Short is thought to have been trying to look down to the street from the top a steel barrier on the third floor of the Global Backpackers Hostel, in Melbourne, when he fell.

According to Australian newspaper The Age, the young man had been drinking with friends before the accident.