Deaths of two eastern European men under investigation

THE deaths of two eastern European men were being investigated by gardaí in Tipperary and Louth last night.

The latest death happened in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, in the early hours of yesterday morning, after a man was assaulted at a party in a house in the Coach Yard.

Gardaí were alerted at about 1.45am and arrived to find the body of a man in his 30s and believed to be from Latvia or Ukraine, in suspicious circumstances. A post-mortem examination being carried out by State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy last night was expected to confirm that he suffered several stab wounds.