The 19-year-old from Clonmel, Co Tipperary became unwell while at the Indiependence festival earlier this month.

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"They all saw Jack tubed up and wired up. There was a shock factor," his father said. Jack died three days after taking what is believed to have been ecstasy/MDMA.

Fears that 600 music and cultural festivals could have been cancelled next summer due to serious concerns that on-site emergency medical care will no longer be available have finally been resolved after a year of delays.

Jack Downey, 19, of Ard Caoin in Clonmel passed away last Monday having been rushed to Cork University Hospital three days earlier after he fell ill.

The funeral of a teenager who died after taking a substance at the Indiependence music festival will take place this morning.

Garda investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 19-year-old at a music festival over the weekend are continuing.

Jack Downey from Clonmel passed away after three days at Cork University Hospital.

The head of services at the Ana Liffey Drug Project has called on young people attending festivals and concerts to avail of welfare services if they are feeling unwell after taking drugs.

A teenager who died after consuming drugs at a festival has been described as a “young boy who had a future ahead of him”.

A young man who was taken to Cork University Hospital after consuming a substance at the Indiependence Music Festival has died.

Champions Kerry made light work of a very defensive but outclassed Limerick side in this EirGrid Munster U-20 Football Championship semi-final at Austin Stack Park, Tralee last evening.

A Jack Downey 45 in the fourth minute of second-half stoppages handed victory to Limerick in this Munster U20 football quarter-final.

I understand that there are many people in mortgage arrears.

RECENTLY, VE Barrett (Letters, August 24) suggested a Margaret Thatcher would be good for Ireland.

GERALD DUFFY does not provide a convincing rebuttal to Michael Dorgan’s concerns about water fluoridation (March 9). Making claims like “this is a widely accepted fact” and quoting sources in the US government will not convince the discerning reader.

IN his column headlined ‘Can the Belfast peacemaker walk on water once more – in Jerusalem? (September 1), Steven King suggests that Hamas wants to turn Palestine into a Muslim state. I am not sure if that is the case.

HAVING read your report headlined ‘Minimum wage threatens recovery’ (June 14), I wonder how many of the accountancy professionals who took part in the survey are actually being paid the minimum wage?

I READ Colm O’Sullivan’s letter with interest (‘Depressing prospect if we vote down treaty’, July 23).

HAVING read Steven King’s column (January 7), I can only conclude he has never been to the occupied Palestinian territories and conducted his research by visiting Israeli websites.

ON Monday, September 8, at around 3.45pm, I got my first sighting of the new Garda Armed Response Unit in their brightly coloured Volvo on Limerick’s Dublin Road.

I LEARNED two things from Gary Rudge’s letter headlined ‘My 4WD is a necessity — not a fashion item’ (December 27: 1.

MUCH has been made of Bertie Ahern’s infamous loans from friends. However, no one has questioned his interest calculation of 3%.

ERIC BLAIR (or George Orwell as we know him best) would enjoy the debates in your letters page.

IN recent days I have noticed that reports about Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in your paper always refer to him as Mr Ahmadinejad.

FINE GAEL’S Olivia Mitchell wants the gardaí to have more resources in order to combat the carnage on our roads.

I WISH to express my support for Dr Steven King on his excellent analysis of the Arab/Israeli conflict (Irish Examiner, July 5).

STEVEN KING’S column (Irish Examiner, July 5) disturbed me greatly.

FORMER US Marine Corps officer Bill Hurley regards opponents of torture as ‘America-haters’ (Irish Examiner letters, June 13).

I WAS confused by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s remarks, quoted in your report headlined “Iran refuses to give in to security council” (Irish Examiner, April 28).

I PRESUME Roger Cottrell’s letter headlined “Let’s take the ‘but’ out of politics on both sides of the Border” (Irish Examiner, January 23) was an outburst of frustration at prevailing attitudes and not intended as a carefully reasoned argument.