Brian Hogan’s whole life changed in the blink of an eye after a single punch attack from a stranger on a night out left the then 32-year-old blind and in a wheelchair.
Now, 15 years later, he will ring in the New Year in a new house of his own.
It has been a long road, and one in which Brian was, in his own words, ‘rescued’ from a nursing home, where he spent three years.
But thanks to Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Ireland, he moved into assisted living housing in Ennis, Co. Clare, where his rehabilitation continued, before he finally got the keys to his own home in Ennis through Anvers Housing, a partner organisation of ABI Ireland, this year.
Now living independently for the first…