Taxi driver hailed for saving pensioner’s life after attack

THE sister of a pensioner who was viciously attacked and beaten by three youths has said she believes her brother would have been killed if a hero taxi driver had not gone to his aid.

Eamon Horan was beaten, kicked and left bleeding on the ground during the savage assault as he made his way home from his local pub in Tralee, Co Kerry.

The 75-year-old had his jaw broken in two places, suffered a fractured nose and sustained other nasty head, chest and facial injuries when he was set upon in a botched mugging.