CORK man Stephen Donegan remains in critical condition in a Liverpool hospital following an attack in the city last weekend.
Family friend and Cork Fianna Fáil Councillor Kevin O'Keeffe said Mr Donegan's family have been keeping vigil by the 24-year-old's bedside.
Mr Donegan, known as Stevie, has been in an induced coma since Saturday at the Walton Centre in Merseyside - a hospital that specialises in head injuries and Britain's only specialist neurosciences NHS Trust.
“There’s no sign of him leaving hospital. He is still in a coma,” Mr O'Keeffe told The Irish Post. “We’re all hoping in time he’ll get out. The family came over on Monday.”
Emergency services were called in the early hours of Saturday morning (March 7) to Concert Square in Liverpool city centre where Mr Donegan was found with a head injury in an alleyway between Fleet Street and Seel Street near The Walkabout bar and Level nightclub.
It is believed the Irishman had been in Liverpool with a group of friends from Ireland on a stag weekend.
An avid sports fan, the Limerick Institute of Technology graduate is a member of the Shanballymore Hurling and Football Club in Co. Cork.
His father, Con Donegan, is a prominent political activist in the north Cork area.
Kyle Harley, 19, with an address in Seymour Street in the Wirral appeared in Liverpool Magistrate's Court on Monday charged with causing grievous bodily after presenting himself to a police station on Sunday.
He made no plea and was released on conditional bail to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on March 23.
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