Family thank well-wishers for prayers during coma

THE father of a brave young man who has woken from a seven-month coma broke his family’s silence last night to thank people around the world for their support and prayers.

David Keohane, 29, from Ballyvolane in Cork, was brutally assaulted and left for dead on the street of a Sydney resort town last August.

He spent months in a coma in hospitals in Sydney and Cork before he stunned medical staff at Cork University Hospital (CUH) when he opened his eyes on St Patrick’s Day.