Patient attacked sleeping woman

A seriously injured grandmother was “savagely attacked” by a male patient while she was sleeping in her bed at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).

The patient entered the 72-year-old woman’s room and attempted to remove the grandmother of eight from her bed, punching and kicking her all over her body.

The woman, who has now returned to her home in Caherdavin, was being treated at UHL for four weeks after undergoing surgery to her kidney and liver, and had 10 blood transfusions.