The garda investigation into the brutal machete murder of a Polish father in Cork last summer is “live, ongoing and active”, the city’s coroner has been told.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a Polish man in Co Cork have issued a specific appeal for a taxi driver who dropped passengers in the area in the hours before the attack to contact them.

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.

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.

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.

The wife of a Polish father of two hacked to death during a frenzied machete attack in their home has told gardaí his killers spoke fluent English.

A close friend of the Polish father of two who was brutally hacked to death in his home says his wife’s physical injuries will heal but her heart will be broken forever.

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.

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