Distraught mother asks for prayers for critically ill son

A heartbroken mother yesterday urged people to pray for her son, who has been in a coma since falling from a building in Thailand last month.

Robbie Robinson, 32, who sustained a traumatic brain injury, is on a life support machine in a Bangkok hospital and doctors say he will not survive.

Martina Robinson, from Ashford, Co Wicklow, who is in Bangkok keeping a bedside vigil for her son, broke down during a interview with RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan.