Canberra attack victim off life support

A KERRYMAN left in a critical condition after allegedly being attacked by a teenage student in Australia 10 days ago is finally breathing by himself in hospital.

Canberra Hospital has confirmed that Tim McCarthy, 41, from Spa in Killarney, is recovering without the aid of life support after more than a week of fears he would join a growing list of Irish people fatally wounded in the country.

The middle-aged man was left “unresponsive” after suffering cerebral damage in the attack at 5.30am on Sunday, July 24 and underwent emergency surgery for severe brain haemorrhaging in the hours after the attack.