A gay rugby player who may never be able to return to playing sports following an unprovoked homophobic attack last month said the levels of homophobia in Ireland are akin to living in the Middle Ages.
Evan Somers (23) appeared on the last ever episode of RTÉ One’s «Claire Byrne Live» programme last night to describe his ordeal and his ever-present fear of being attacked again because he is gay, independent.ie reports.
According to independent.ie, he was wearing a Controlled Ankle Motion or CAM boot on his ankle that was shattered when he was savagely attacked while on Dublin’s Dame Street after a night out at a local gay bar, The George – 10 April 2022, he revealed that his now has plates and pins in his ankle and may never be able to play sports again.
«I’m not sure I’ll get back to what I was doing before», he said of his physical injuries following the assault on April 10, including an eye injury after he was punched in the face.
All this because he was leaving a gay bar and trying to flag down a Dublin taxi and someone came up to him that called him and homophobic slur and punched him in the face.
