An OAP had to be resuscitated in hospital after a burglary gang broke into his home and beat him to a pulp, smashing an eye socket and some of his ribs.
The 75-year-old was targeted on Tuesday of last week in Sligo when a mob of three invaded his house and attacked him.
Investigators are probing if it was a Dublin gang - who have been on a spree across the northwest - that was behind the violent attack.
