Deaths

• John Brown, a developer from Rostellan, near Whitegate in Co. Cork, died last Saturday while working on a site he owned at Shangarry. The father of four was laying pipes in a ten-foot deep trench when the sides collapsed on him. Both the Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority are investigating the accident.
• A 41-year-old man died on Saturday afternoon when he fell while roofing a farmhouse near Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry.
• The funeral took place on Tuesday of murdered Kilkenny postmaster Alan Cunniffe. As a mark of respect all post offices in the country closed from noon until 1:00pm and all postal workers observed two minutes' silence at noon. Ten days ago Mr Cunniffe (32) was shot in the stomach when he confronted a gunman who had just robbed his sub post office at John's Green in the city. A Chinese national, who was arrested nearby, was later charged with murder and remanded in custody.
• Gardaí investigating the murder of Mr Cunniffe have appealed for anyone who travelled all or part of the journey from Dublin to Kilkenny on the Bus Éireann Expressway coach on December 8, the day of the killing, to contact them.
• State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy carried out a post-mortem on the body of 19-year-old Ronan Halloran which was taken from Galway Docks on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Halloran, from Shrule, Co. Mayo, had come into the city with friends on Sunday night but became separated from them after they had been harassed by another group in Eyre Square.
• Gardaí in Co. Galway are seeking help in identifying the body of a man who was found at Lough Inagh Valley near Recess in Connemara. It appears that the man had been hill-walking and died from natural causes. His body was badly decomposed and could have been lying there since August. The man is described as being 35 to 50 years of age, 5ft 6ins to 5ft 11ins tall. He was wearing a yellow waterproof jacket, dark navy shirt, orange jumper with a Norwegian Flag and blue denim jeans.
• A further three of the previous week's road victims were named on Monday. The motorcyclist who lost his life on Dublin's Phibsboro Road last Saturday was Slovakian Zoltan Szafko (31), who had been living on the Navan Road in Dublin. Later that day William Day (22), Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow died in a single-vehicle accident at Shankill, Co. Dublin. The victim of the following morning's hit-and-run incident in Co. Laois was named as Arunas Urbelis (30), a Lithuanian who had been living in Tullamore. Carl Conroy (17), from Robertstown, Co, Kildare was the driver who died last Sunday evening when his car plunged into the Grand Canal from the Allenwood to Prosperous road. Of the 11 people who died as a result of road accidents during that week five were from overseas – one from England and four from eastern Europe.
• Frank Long (59), from Roches Buildings in Cork city, was fatally injured shortly before 5:30pm on Monday when he was struck by a van, while crossing the road at Farnanes on the Cork-Macroom road.
• A Polish man in his 20s was killed early on Wednesday when two trucks coming from the Limerick direction collided on the N7, before the Plunkett Street roundabout, in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. The victim was a passenger in one of the trucks.
• Patrick Cox (17) lost his life shortly before 9:00pm on Saturday when the car he was driving collided with a truck near his home at Arva, Co. Cavan.
• A 26-year-old man died in a two-car collision in Bruff, Co. Limerick, shortly before 10:00am on Sunday.