Mother awarded €47,500 over UCC student’s death

The mother of a French student has been awarded €47,500 after he died as a result of the inhalation of gas from a cooker at his rented home in Co Cork.

Mr Justice John Edwards sympathised with the family of Alexis Landry, who was 29 at the time of his death on Nov 8, 2008, at Sleaveen East, Macroom.

Mr Landry had just begun a PhD in archaeology after receiving a first-class master’s in the subject from University College Cork.