State urged to think about people with brain injuries

One reckless punch from a stranger changed Brian Hogan’s life forever, the Limerick man said at the launch of a campaign in Dublin yesterday urging the Government to invest in neuro-rehabilitation services for people who have a brain injury.

Brian, 36, from Ballykeefe, Co Limerick, knows what it means to be inappropriately housed after a brain injury.

Following an unprovoked attack in 2009, which left him severely brain damaged, paralysed, and blind, Brian was placed in a nursing home, a terrible place for a young man still grieving a life he once knew.