“I’m heartbroken,” Carmel Kidney said, standing outside Bandon courthouse, not far from where her son, Alan, was found dead after a drugs overdose. “As a mother, I am devastated. I have three funerals to pay for.”

A retired public school teacher from Oxfordshire died after a summer sailing trip turned to disaster in West Cork.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a British man in West Cork have traced his relatives in England.