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Mon 11 Nov 2002Emotional homecoming for man who survived assault in the USHaving completed a seven-hour plane journey, eight weeks after being left fighting for his life in a US hospital, John Brennan was asked how he felt: "Not a bother" came the reply.The 21-year-old Kilkenny man has confounded doctors with his powers of recovery following an assault which left him on a life support machine in the intensive care unit of Yale hospital, New Haven, on September 28th.