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Postmortem rules out foul play in death
Gardaí in Cork city have ruled out foul play in the death of a 40-year-old single man whose body was found at a house in Rathpeacon on the city’s north side on Tuesday night.
A Garda spokesman confirmed that they were no longer treating the death as suspicious, following a postmortem by assistant State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster.
Gardaí had cordoned off the man’s family home about a mile from the Old Mallow Road overnight and kept the body at the scene to allow for examinations of the body and scene.
Arrested after hitting Garda car
Gardaí in Limerick arrested three people early yesterday morning following a series of raids on five business premises overnight in Limerick and Tipperary. A man aged 20 and two teenagers, aged 17 and 16, were detained for questioning at Roxboro station.
The blue Renault Laguna in which they were travelling collided with a Garda patrol car at 1.20am at Drombanna, outside Limerick city.
A Garda spokesman said no member of the force was injured but one of the men in the car was taken to hospital and treated for “minor injuries”.
A fourth occupant of the car fled the scene. The gardaí were investigating reports of burglaries at business premises including pharmacies in Annacotty and Hospital, Co Limerick, and shops in Emly and Tipperary towns.
No one was hurt during the break-ins but cash and prescription drugs were stolen. The car is being examined by Garda technical experts.
Cigarette seizure at Dublin airport
Customs officers have seized 134,500 cigarettes in an operation at Dublin airport targeting Lithuanian-based gang members among passengers who had arrived yesterday on a flight from Vilnius, Lithuania.
The cigarettes had a street value of about €55,000 and they would have represented a potential loss to the Exchequer of about €45,500, according to Customs, who believe the cigarettes were destined for black market outlets in Dublin.
Customs so far this year have seized 11 million cigarettes, with 2.3 million taken in April alone.
New guide for safer workplaces
A new guide to help employers make workplaces safer and more accessible for workers with disabilities have been launched by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA).
The publication, which was produced with the National Disability Authority, offers advice on accommodating disability, creating an inclusive health and safety process and evacuation procedures for disabled staff.
About one in 10 Irish people has some form of disability, the National Disability Authority said, and 80 per cent of these acquired the disability as an adult. The guide can be downloaded at www.hsa.ie
Shandon sunrise to greet summer
Cork’s Shandon Tower will hose a May Day performance to herald the beginning of summer tomorrow at dawn.
Early risers will be treated to a dawn chorus from St Anne’s Bell Tower by Co Down singer Cathal O’Baoill and the Gothenburg Youth Choir.
The Shandon sunrise event takes place at 5.52am. Last year about 100 early risers attended.