HEALTH inspectors and Department of Marine officials carried out up to 20 routine inspections of a walk-in fish shop freezer but failed to notice a man’s body which was hidden there for five years.

A jury at the inquest into the death of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has recommended that no student should ever walk the line between Ceannt Station and Renmore in Galway city alone.

NOBODY questions the need for radical reform of Ireland’s outdated coroners’ courts but Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s approach to this issue leaves much to be desired.