Footballer to ‘recover fully’ from US attack

A TALENTED intercounty footballer who suffered head injuries in an attack in Boston is sitting up in bed talking and looking forward to coming home, according to his wife.

Valerie O’Neill told the Irish Examiner yesterday that doctors had delivered a very good prognosis on her husband, Damien, who was injured during the attack in Boston last Thursday.

The couple and their four boys, who range in age from two to 12, were in the US city preparing to attend the wedding of her brother, Declan O’Shea.