Irish Man Who Left Little Brother to Die Walks Out Of Hospital With Victim

Two Irish tourist brothers left an Australian hospital just a month after one of them punched and then left the other fighting for life.

It happened at about 3 a.m. a month ago in Sydney's Kings Cross nightclub district. Patrick Lyttle dropped into a coma for a week, just after his brother Barry gave him a punch.

Yet, a month later, the brothers from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, walked out from the hospital with their arms around each other. Family members yesterday put up some social media pictures of the men leaving hospital in a close embrace.

They got hundreds of support messages from close Irish friends.

Pictures at the scene showed Barry in tears, while their father, Oliver, later said that they "have loved each other from when they were kids", according to belfasttelegraph.com.

At St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, 31-year-old Patrick was on life support, even as Barry, 33, was charged in court with "reckless grievous bodily harm".

Later, Irish tourist Barry Lyttle was allowed to live with his girlfriend who rushed from Ireland to Australia to be by his side after a magistrate agreed to change his bail conditions, according to dailymail.com.

Cara McShane, who had been a close friend and classmate of Barry, said that the residents of his hometown were glad to hear of his progress.

"I was talking to the family at the weekend and everybody is taking it one day at a time," she told the Belfast Telegraph. "It has been a very long road. It has been torture, a living nightmare. The picture that has emerged in the past 24 hours is really a sign of hope things are looking up. Barry and Patrick still share a very close bond. Our thoughts are with Patrick and that he makes a full recovery with rehabilitation. While that is paramount, looming in the background are the court proceedings involving Barry."

Various family members , including their sisters, dropped in to see the brothers. They got back together in Sydney after Patrick travelled all over the country.

Patrick will enter into "intensive rehabilitation" just following his discharge, however, there has been no date fixed for his return home. Barry Lyttle arrived in Australia on December 29 with his father on a visit to Patrick, who had been travelling around Australia for months previously.

The case continues on February 17.