Fears ease as condition of men improves

FEARS for the lives of two young men who collapsed in separate incidents in the midlands over the weekend were eased yesterday when the condition of both improved from “critical” to “stable”.

Gardaí and doctors were trying to establish if the symptoms suffered by the men were drug-related.

A 17-year-old from the Mullingar area collapsed on the street in the early hours of Sunday and was brought to the intensive care unit at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore.