A kind-hearted bar manager closed her pub to tend to a man who had been viciously attacked in the city.

Lauren O'Shea, general manager of the Hub and the Market Tavern, was working in the Hub on her own. At around 10.30pm on Monday 1 December, she was cleaning outside the pub when she saw a man standing outside the Market Tavern.

"He was covered in blood and very incoherent, but it wasn't from drink or drugs. I set him down on furniture and cleaned him up."

The man was drifting in and out of consciousness, so she closed the Hub and sent customers into the Market Tavern so she could take care of him.

"He was in his late 30s, or early 40s, a lovely guy and very shook up. There was quite a lot of blood on his face, cuts on his cheeks and the top of his head. I gave him my jacket as we had no blankets."

Lauren says that he had a snood that wasn't his and it seems that the attackers may pulled that over his head. He still had his phone and Lauren didn't know if he was robbed.

Lauren gave the man first aid and called an ambulance and gardaÃ­. She waited almost 40 around minutes for both to arrive, she says. They arrived within minutes of each other, with the gardaÃ­ being dispatched from the Bridewell, she belived, rather than Anglesea Garda Station across the road. Lauren says she gave a statement to gardaÃ­ and he was taken away in an ambulance.

Although the man was incoherent, Lauren thinks he was attacked by a gang of men near Shalom Park, near the Bord GÃ¡is headquarters. He had walked his girlfriend into town to get the bus and was returning home in the direction of Old Blackrock Road when some men attacked him. It is not known what their motive was for attacking him, if any.

A garda spokesperson confirmed that the man made a good recovery and no arrests were made.