Gardaí rule out link between two drug deaths days apart

Gardaí last night ruled out a connection between the suspected drugs-related deaths of a teenager and a man in his 20s in the same Cork city suburb in recent days.

A 16-year-old boy was found dead at his family home in Deermount yesterday morning. A 26-year-old man, meanwhile, died after becoming unwell after attending a party at the house he was visiting in nearby Greenmount in the early hours of Sunday.

Gardaí initially considered a possible link between the deaths but, following preliminary enquiries, they ruled out a connection last night.