Corkman Jason Cierans wakes from coma in Sydney

A Corkman who was in a coma for two weeks after an assault in Australia had just one question when he woke to find his emotional family around him: “What are you all doing here?”

Jason Cierans, 29, from Gurranabraher in Cork City, was left fighting for his life after the one-punch assault knocked him to the ground as he left a pub in Sydney where he has worked for the past six years.

His parents, Stephanie and Declan, and his younger brother, Jamie, made an emergency dash to Australia to be with him and have been maintaining a bedside vigil, desperately hoping for signs of improvement.