Inquest into man’s death

THE inquest of former Limerick criminal turned politician Mikey Kelly has been set for next Wednesday.

The controversial figure who featured in a TV documentary The Hard Man was found with a bullet wound to the head at his mother’s home in Southill on May 14, 2004. He died four weeks later, havingnever recovered consciousness.

Days after his funeral, family membersbegan to dig up his grave to disprove a Sunday newspaper report that a gun he used to shoot himself with was placed in the coffin.