Gardaí search house after Cork assault leaves man fighting for his life

Victim suffered a serious head injury and underwent emergency surgery several hours after the incident on Oliver Plunkett St on Friday evening

The victim of an assault in Cork city suffered a serious head injury and underwent emergency surgery at Cork University Hospital. Picture: Dan Linehan

Gardaí have searched a house and seized items of evidential interest as part of their investigation into a suspected one-punch assault in Cork city which has left a man fighting for his life in hospital.

The victim, 48, with an address in Ballyphehane on the southside of the city, suffered a serious head injury and underwent emergency surgery several hours after the incident on Oliver Plunkett St on Friday evening.