Coroner urges all landlords to install heat alarms

A CORONER yesterday called for regulations to force landlords to ensure properly functioning heat alarms are installed in all rented houses.

An inquest in Killarney heard how an alarm in a rented house, in which a 28-year-old Lithuanian man died last October, did not have a battery.

A fire in the kitchen at 26 Countess Grove, Killarney, resulted in the death of chef Audrius Kiauna from carbon monoxide poisoning.