Gun attack gym boss Sean Enright ‘disabled’ THE bodybuilder who survived being shot five times at close range is set to leave hospital — but now faces the prospect of being permanently disabled.
Sources have told The Star that businessman Sean Enright (33) — blasted outside the gym he runs in Glasnevin, north Dublin on May 14 — is expected to leave the city’s Mater Hospital within the coming days.
But they added that his injuries from the attack — in which he lost his spleen — are so serious that he may have to use a walking stick for the rest of his life.
They said that rather than going straight home, Enright will be sent to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire.
“He was lucky to survive the shooting and his life is not in any danger,” a source said.
“But he was seriously injured and will be feeling the effects for the rest of his life.”
It’s the second time in just over two years that Enright (33) has survived a murder bid — and gardai believe the super-fit bodybuilder’s physique helped save his life.
On the morning of May 14, a gunman blasted Enright five times from behind as he walked into the Universal Gym he operates in Ballyboggan Industrial Estate.
It was feared Enright — who has a minor criminal conviction for possessing a stun gun in 2007 — was going to die after the attack.
But he was sitting up within a matter of hours, later telling The Star: ‘I’m grand.”
The bodybuilder previously survived a gun attack in January 2011 when he was shot as he sat in a car in west Dublin.
Meanwhile, a man shot in Tallaght last Thursday night is still alive — even though he was expected to die following the attack.
Convicted criminal Karl Wynne (45) — who was arrested over the attempted murder of Enright — is critically ill on life support in Tallaght Hospital.
