A year after he was brutally assaulted during a gaelic football match in San Francisco, Mark McGovern is back home in Fermanagh and desperately trying to get his life back.

Appearing on Ireland’s Late Late Show Friday, Fermanagh GAA star Mark McGovern - who spent more than a month in a coma following an on-field assault in San Francisco last summer - told host Ryan Tubridy that he forgives his attacker.

An Irish footballer who was left in a coma for five weeks this summer has criticized the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) for their incomprehensible attitude towards player-on-player violence on the pitch.

It’s been a bad year for Fermanagh man Mark McGovern. After embarking on a J1 summer visa to San Francisco last summer, the 23-year-old ended up in a coma after an off-the-ball attack during a gaelic football game in late June.

The Irish gaelic footballer assaulted and seriously injured in a match just days after he arrived in San Francisco has re-lived the horror attack.

The Gaelic footballer left with brain damage after he was attacked on a San Francisco playing field has returned home to Northern Ireland – after a mammoth 18 day journey by land and sea.

Doctors have hailed Mark McGovern’s recovery as a miracle, after the Fermanagh GAA player sustained a serious brain injury following an off-the-ball incident in San Francisco last June.
Speaking from San Francisco, in one of his first interviews since the incident, McGovern, 23, told the Irish Voice that he has a blurred memory of the events of June 25.

A Fermanagh footballer who suffered severe head injuries in a GAA game in San Francisco this summer, has described his recovery from a coma as a “miracle”.

The family of Mark McGovern, the young Belcoo footballer that was put into a coma mere weeks after arriving in California, has admitted that they're "very disappointed" at the sentence that Mark's attack has been given.

The family of the Fermanagh GAA player who ended up in a coma after an attack during a Gaelic football game, have spoke about their disappointment that no one has come forward as a witness to the brutal attack.

In a development little short of a miracle Mark McGovern, the GAA footballer who has been in a coma after being kicked in the head during a match over a month ago in San Francisco, has finally woken up.

Speaking from the San Francisco General Hospital, where severely injured GAA player Mark McGovern's parents are sitting by his bedside. Their son has battled for his life for the past five weeks, and his family have vowed to remain in the US until his recovery.