‘I didn’t know why I was in hospital’

A 49-year-old man who received “devastating” injuries in a fight at his home yesterday told a jury that he had no memory of the incident almost four years ago.

Gerald Fitzgerald, who also has a brain injury, was giving evidence at the trial of his two nephews at the Circuit Criminal Court, in Tralee, Co Kerry.

“I woke up in hospital, but I didn’t know why I was in hospital,” he said.