Shooting victim survives to ‘pop the question’

A LIMERICK man who survived a bullet wound to the head turned up unexpectedly at his girlfriend’s 21st birthday party and proposed to the dumbstruck birthday girl.

Shooting victim survives to ‘pop the question’
Sat, 27 Nov, 2010 - 00:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

Daniel Phillips, 20, from Crecora Avenue, Ballinacurra Weston, was shot in the head as he travelled in a car near St John’s Square on May 24.

An initial report indicated he had died.

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