Slovakian man discovered dead after sleeping rough

ON THE day the Government announced new taxation measures aimed at cutting the budget deficit by €1 billion, gardaí are investigating how a Slovakian man, who had been sleeping rough, died on a street in Dublin city centre.

It is understood the man, who was in his 40s and whose family is currently living elsewhere in Ireland, had been one of a number of people who had been sleeping under cardboard boxes on Dominick St Lower, north of O’Connell St, in recent weeks. However, it is understood the man had an address in Dublin City Centre until recently but lately had been sleeping rough and drinking heavily.

A postmortem will be conducted on the man’s body today, although it is understood that gardaí are not attributing his death directly to the weather conditions, although it was initially suspected that he may have had hypothermia. Temperatures have fallen in recent days after an exceptionally mild November.