A YOUNG woman who was discovered collapsed on the street near her mother’s, died two and a half weeks later from swelling of the brain due to cardiac arrest, due to a suspected cocaine overdose.

IT was not considered appropriate for gardaí to notify neighbours that a convicted sex offender is living among them a garda superintendent told the High Court yesterday.

GARDAÍ stationed at Ballybunion, Co Kerry, in the spring of 1999 have denied leaking information to the media that a convicted rapist was residing with a Dublin family who had relocated to the resort town under the rural resettlement scheme, the High Court heard yesterday.