Tests show no trace of radioactive material at Maynooth

RADIOACTIVITY tests at the college where a former Russian prime minister fell ill, and from the hospital that treated him, proved negative, it emerged last night.

Experts from the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) tested NUI Maynooth and James Connolly Memorial Hospital in west Dublin for traces of Polonium-210 yesterday afternoon but found no trace of contamination.

The tests were carried out as part of a garda probe into the suspected poisoning of the former Russian primeminister, Yegor Gaidar, who collapsed while attending a conference at the college on November 24.