Irish woman fighting for life after baseball bat mugging in US

A YOUNG Irish woman is in a critical condition in a US hospital after she was subjected to a violent beating with a baseball bat during a robbery in the early hours of Friday.

Natasha McShane, 23, from Silverbridge in south Armagh, was robbed and assaulted in an up-market area of Chicago by an unknown assailant while walking home with Stacy Jurich, 24. They were returning home after a night out celebrating the end of college exams.

The Queens University Belfast graduate and UCD student, who is studying at the University of Illinois and has recently obtained an internship in the US, has remained in a critical condition at the city’s Advocate Trinity Hospital.