A man who suffered catastrophic head injuries when he was assaulted on St Patrick’s Day night in Limerick City has died in hospital from his injuries.

Liam “Gingee” Higgins (55), originally from Rhebogue but who was living at Grove Island, Corbally, was allegedly set upon by a number of people at Athlunkard Street, Limerick.

Three men were charged in connection with the attack before sittings of Limerick District Court last week and last weekend.

Higgins is alleged to have stabbed Darren Mason, one of the three people before the court, before being allegedly assaulted himself by Mason and a number of others, the district court heard.

Mason (22), of St Munchin’s Street, St Mary’s Park, Limerick, and others were recorded on CCTV allegedly stamping on Higgins’s head as he lay unconscious on Athlunkard Street, the court heard.

Mason is charged with one count of assault causing harm to Higgins; one count of violent disorder; and one count of producing an article, namely a traffic bollard, capable of inflicting serious injury during the course of a dispute, at Athlunkard Street, during the alleged assault, on March 17th last.

A statement released by gardaí on Thursday morning said: “The male (50s) who was injured during the incident was pronounced deceased yesterday evening, Wednesday 25th March 2026 at University Hospital Limerick.”

“The office of the coroner, and the State Pathologist have been notified.”

A postmortem examination is due to be carried out at University Hospital Limerick and is likely to determine how the Garda investigation progresses.

Higgins was attacked on the eighth anniversary of his 23-year old son Jamie Higgins’s death by stabbing – in an entirely unrelated incident – at a nightclub at Shannon, Co Clare, on St Patrick’s Day in 2018.

As Liam Higgins lay in hospital on a life support machine last week, his wife Sharon Higgins said she expected he would not survive.

“I have to go through all of this again now, like I buried my son, I have to bury my husband the same way,” she said.

“I am horrified about it, I feel there is nothing left of me to be honest. I don’t know any more, I am just a shell now, there is nothing left of me, this is too much to handle.

“I am not able to bury another [family member]. It’s the same thing again, I have cried so much. It’s too much to handle and take on.”