Nursing home resident died after burning incident

GARDAÍ are investigating the death of a man who suffered serious injury while in nursing home care.

Seán Twomey, from Prospect Lawn, Drimoleague, West Cork, died on Christmas Day, less than three weeks after an incident in which he is understood to have suffered burns while smoking a cigarette.

The father-of-four, a stroke victim, was a patient at Fairfield Nursing Home, Quarry Road, Drimoleague.