Gardaí investigating the death of a 36-year-old man in Cork city have confirmed that a postmortem revealed he died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head but they are still trying to establish whether his injuries were accidental or the result of an assault.
Ian Queally, Skehard Road, Cork, died at Cork University Hospital on Tuesday night having spent several days on a life-support machine following emergency surgery soon after he presented himself at the hospital at about noon on May 14th.
A postmortem by Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster confirmed that he died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head but was unable to establish how exactly he suffered the injuries.
Witnesses to gun attack sought
Gardaí have called for witnesses to a gun attack on a home in south inner city Dublin shortly after midnight yesterday.
A young family escaped injury after two men opened fire outside their home in Hanover Street West.
Two shots were fired, one damaging the front door of the house.
The second shot went through the front window, shattering the glass. A man and woman were asleep upstairs in the house at the time, along with two young children.
Gardaí at Kevin Street have asked for anyone with information to contact them on 01-6669400, the Garda confidential telephone line 1800 666 111 or their local Garda station.
Woman in coma after house fire
A 34-year-old Limerick woman whose three-year-old daughter died in a house fire was in a coma in a hospital in Jersey yesterday, unaware that she has lost her only child.
Fire fighters found Daphne Quinn and her daughter, Lily May, unconscious in their home at Mont Cochon, First Tower, St Helier, shortly after 4am on Wednesday.
Both were resuscitated at the scene and the child was due to be flown to South Hampton hospital for specialist treatment but she died at Jersey’s general hospital later that night.
Her mother was in a coma yesterday in the intensive care unit where her condition was described as “critical but stable”.
Her parents, Mary and Tom Quinn, flew to the island on Wednesday and were keeping vigil at her bedside last night.
Originally from Whitethorn Drive, Caherdavin, Ms Quinn has been living in Jersey for a number of years.