Polish men’s bodies to be released today

THE bodies of four Polish men killed in a horrific road accident in Cork at the weekend are expected to be released by the authorities today following a fast-tracked inquest yesterday.

Gardaí told coroner Frank O'Connell that they had obtained objective evidence establishing the identity of each of the deceased who were killed in a head-on collision involving their Opel Astra and a truck at Goggan's Hill in Ballinhassig, Co Cork, just after 10pm on Friday night.

They were named as Sylwester Szczyrow, 25, Andrzej Wojciechowski, 27, and Rafal Gorski, 28, all with an address at 42, Parknamore Rise, Ballincollig, Co Cork, and Radoslaw Nowak, 23, with an address at 12, Longrange, Powdermills, also in Ballincollig.