An inquest into Rachel Peavoy's death from hypothermia in her Ballymun flat has heard that she had not eaten for three days.

DUBLIN City Council has denied that the heating system in a Ballymun flat in which a mother-of-two died of hypothermia had been switched off.

PHONE calls made to maintenance numbers requesting the heating be switched on in an apartment block in which a young mother eventually died of hypothermia were “hung up on”, the Dublin City Coroner’s Court has heard.

DUBLIN City Council continued to fail to provide alternative sources of heating during the recent cold spell to tenants who refused to leave their homes in Ballymun flat complexes undergoing regeneration work, despite the earlier death of a young woman from hypothermia.

THE doctor representing the family of a 30-year-old mother-of- two who died from hypothermia in her council flat, has called for an independent inquiry into her death.