Council denies heat was turned off in flat

DUBLIN City Council has denied that the heating system in a Ballymun flat in which a mother-of-two died of hypothermia had been switched off.

Rachel Peavoy, 30, of 224 Shangan Road, Ballymun, Dublin, was found dead in her flat on January 11 last year. Pathologist Anthony Dorman, a consultant histapathologist at Beaumont hospital, found she had suffered hypothermia.

Speaking at the inquest, council engineer Brendan Furlong denied the heating in Ms Peavoy’s flat had been turned off and claimed it was working at the time of her death.