Three years ago, Conor Gorman-Hogan spent Christmas fighting for his life in Dublin's Beaumont Hospital after he was assaulted in a Co Donegal nightclub.

Kildare CEO of Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABI), Dr Karen Foley, who has worked with ABI since 2006 when she was a PhD student in UCD, has spent most of her professional life advocating for those with brain injuries in Ireland.