Honour for Cork teen who used karate skills to save father from being gored by bull

A teenager who used his karate skills to fight off a bull goring his father is to receive a national bravery award.

John O’Donoghue, who was 15 at the time, was on the family farm near Mitchelstown, Co Cork, when a previously-docile young bull attacked his father, Joe.

The 520kg animal flipped his father into the air like a rag doll, knocked him to the ground and started goring him.