A special mass will be held for the Polish community in Cork tomorrow evening as gardaí continue to hunt for the men responsible for the murder of father of two, Mikolaj Wilk, who died in a machete attack at his home in Ballincollig on the outskirts of the city last weekend.

Gardaí investigating the machete murder of a Polish man in his home in Cork last weekend have appealed to taxi or hackney drivers who were working in the area at the time to come forward.

Members of the Polish community gathered in solidarity yesterday at a special Mass in memory of father of two Mikolaj Wilk, who was murdered in a machete attack in Ballincollig, Co Cork, at the weekend.

Members of the Polish community gathered in solidarity this evening at a special mass held in memory of father-of-two Mikolaj Wilk who was murdered in a machete attack in Ballincollig, Co Cork at the weekend.

Gardaí investigating the machete murder of a Polish man in Cork have encouraged members of his own community to contact them with any information they have about his background or about concerns that he may have had.

News of the murder of their neighbour has rocked the community of Ballincollig, as Niall Murray and Eoin English report.

Gardaí have yet to establish the motive behind a brutal attack in which a man in his 30s was hacked to death in his Co Cork home in the early hours of yesterday morning.