{"id":366439,"date":"2026-03-26T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366439\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:02:09","slug":"man-assaulted-in-limerick-on-st-patricks-day-dies-in-hospital-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366439\/","title":{"rendered":"Man assaulted in Limerick on St Patrick\u2019s Day dies in hospital \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who suffered catastrophic head injuries when he was assaulted on St Patrick\u2019s Day<\/a> night in Limerick<\/a> City has died in hospital from his injuries.<\/p>\n

Liam \u201cGingee\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Three men were charged in connection with the attack before sittings of Limerick District Court last week and last weekend.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mason (22), of St Munchin\u2019s Street, St Mary\u2019s Park, Limerick, and others were recorded on CCTV allegedly stamping on Higgins\u2019s head as he lay unconscious on Athlunkard Street, the court heard.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A statement released by garda\u00ed on Thursday morning said: \u201cThe male (50s) who was injured during the incident was pronounced deceased yesterday evening, Wednesday 25th March 2026 at University Hospital Limerick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe office of the coroner, and the State Pathologist have been notified.\u201d<\/p>\n

A postmortem examination is due to be carried out at University Hospital Limerick and is likely to determine how the Garda investigation progresses.<\/p>\n

Higgins was attacked on the eighth anniversary of his 23-year old son Jamie Higgins\u2019s death by stabbing \u2013 in an entirely unrelated incident \u2013 at a nightclub at Shannon, Co Clare, on St Patrick\u2019s Day in 2018.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cI have to go through all of this again now, like I buried my son, I have to bury my husband the same way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am horrified about it, I feel there is nothing left of me to be honest. I don\u2019t know any more, I am just a shell now, there is nothing left of me, this is too much to handle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not able to bury another [family member]. It\u2019s the same thing again, I have cried so much. It\u2019s too much to handle and take on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who suffered catastrophic head injuries when he was assaulted on St Patrick\u2019s Day night in Limerick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,44,43,63762,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-366439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-limerick-city","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}