support a Limerick dancer<\/a> in his recovery after a small roadside exchange prompted an attack, which has left him with life-changing injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\nTobi Omoteso is a Limerick breaker and hip-hop dancer, known across Ireland for bridging communities through music and dance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On his way to setting up for the Top 8 Street Dance & Hip-hop Fest in Limerick on Saturday, following a brief exchange, a man tailed the dancer’s car, eventually blocking Ometeso in.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Live95 News, he explained he was driving out of his estate, and a man was parked at the exit, causing traffic.<\/p>\n
He continued, explaining that “traffic was building up” and people were beeping and giving the man gestures, including himself, who reciprocated a ‘middle-finger’ given to him by the driver of the other car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man proceeded to bash in his car windows, sending shards of glass across the car, including into his eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking to Live95 News, Tobi explained he is now facing multiple emergency operations:<\/p>\n
“I’m battling about three to four operations to at least try to save the eye and get the eye some sort of working,\u00a0but it is permanently damaged now”.<\/p>\n
Omoteso has been in both St. John’s Hospital and University Hospital Limerick, and has commended the staff for their care while he has been there.<\/p>\n
“The guys here are honestly absolutely fantastic”, he said, “so kudos to the staff here”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Limerick hip-hop dancer says he didn’t realise the man was tailing him after he left the estate until he got to the TUS Moylish Campus roundabout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Like a couple of minutes after I left my estate, he just came in, swerved in like a swat, you know? Got out of this car. There was another guy as well with him who also wanted to attempt to get out of the car”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said, “this guy already had a bat in his hand, like he knew what he was going to do”.<\/p>\n
The man proceeded to smash Tobi’s car with the bat, sending shards of glass into his body.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“All the glass and everything caught my hands, caught my face, and obviously entered my eye and permanently damaged my eye”.<\/p>\n
Omoteso has garnered massive support online, both in response to his posts and through donations on his GoFundMe, which has been set up to cover a long list of medical bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On his GoFundMe, Tobi says he now faces a “long, agonising road of surgeries just to cling to a fraction of the vision” he “once took for granted”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He explains his iris was sliced in half and had to be meticulously stitched back together. He\u00a0is also now battling an onset of cataract and a ruptured lens capsule.<\/p>\n
Tobi says he will never see the world clearly again, which ultimately affects his job, work, dance, social interaction and confidence.<\/p>\n
Despite the traumatic experience, Omoteso is keeping a positive mindset and is looking towards a fundraising event with his restaurant in the near future.<\/p>\n
“I’m all about celebration, innit? So just to keep celebrating life. And the fact that I’m alive is a testament, you know? Because, yeah, this guy could do that to anybody. Literally anybody, which is the scary part of it,” he finished.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Tobi’s GoFundMe A Garda\u00ed investigation and a huge fundraising drive are underway in Limerick following a road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612],"class_list":{"0":"post-377619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick-radio","12":"tag-limerick-today","13":"tag-limericks-live95fm","14":"tag-live-95","15":"tag-live95fm","16":"tag-live95fm-homepage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377619","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=377619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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