Garda Ombudsman Commissioner Remains in a Coma
Garda Ombudsman Commissioner, Kieran Fitzgerald remains in a coma in a Spanish hospital this morning.
Mr Fitzgerald, who is a native of Glin in County Limerick, fell off a wall onto rocks in northern Spain last week and was placed in a medically-induced coma.
A former RTE reporter, he was named News and Current Affairs Journalist of the Year in 1999.
In December 2011 he was appointed to GSOC.
His family are keeping a bedside vigil at his hospital in La Coruna.
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