Probe into hotel gas death intensifies

INVESTIGATIONS into a Co Cork hotel death of a woman from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning intensified yesterday after the Health and Safety Authority announced it was launching a full-scale probe.

Up to now the HSA has reportedly played only a peripheral role in investigations at the Trident Hotel in Kinsale, Co Cork.

Gardaí and a consultant engineer from Britain spent the past week examining likely sources of the “silent killer” gas which is believed to have killed 35-year-old Miriam Reidy.