'My life will never be the same': English tourist left with serious injuries after unprovoked attack

Naas teenager sentenced to four-and-a-half year prison term with the final nine months suspended for D'Olier St assault

Stefan Bornac of Woodlands Park, Naas, Co Kildare, at an earlier hearing about his assault on tourist Thomas Oliver at D'Olier St, Dublin 2 on April 17 2022. File picture: Collins Courts

A young English tourist who suffered serious head injuries in an unprovoked attack during a weekend visit to Dublin has told a court his life will never be the same again.

College student Thomas Oliver, 25, spent three weeks in an induced coma at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin after he was knocked unconscious in a one-punch assault in the city centre on April 17, 2022.