Party-goers died from lethal mix of drugs

Two men who attended a Christmas Eve party died within hours of each other from a lethal combination of methadone and tablets.

Dr Margot Bolster, the assistant state pathologist, told Cork City Coroner’s Court yesterday that her post mortem examinations on the bodies of John Foley, aged 33, originally from Ardbhaile, Mayfield, Cork, and John O’Donoghue, aged 32, originally from 4, Larchfield, Youghal, Co Cork, found no evidence of heroin.

Both men, who were renting separate bedsits at 5, Rockgrove Tce, on Cork’s Lower Glanmire Rd, died within hours of each other last Christmas Day and St Stephen’s Day.