Probe into death in police vehicle

The Garda watchdog body has launched an investigation into the circumstances of a man’s fatal collapse in the back of a Garda vehicle shortly after his arrest outside a Co Mayo nightclub early yesterday morning.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has issued an appeal for witnesses to an incident at a licensed premises in Castlebar which resulted in gardaí being called to the scene.

The dead man has been named as Paraic O’Donnell, a 39-year-old single man and father of one from Ashleam, Achill, Co Mayo.