PAUL NEWTON (43), originally from Roscommon but living in Sligo, is a performance coach and keen sportsman who was in Belfast for the Connacht-Ulster rugby match on Friday of last week.
He was returning to his hotel after going to a takeaway in the early hours of Saturday morning when he was attacked.
A number of people walked past him before a night porter at the hotel called an ambulance.
He had suffered a fractured skull and a broken jaw and remained on a life support machine yesterday.
His wife, Maggie, who was on a business trip to the US, flew to Belfast and has spent the week at his bedside in the Royal Victoria Hospital. The couple have two young children.
