Teacher died after drinking local island spirit

The family of a teacher who died after drinking a local spirit on an island off Bali wants the Department of Foreign Affairs to warn people of the risk of methanol poisoning in Indonesia.

Roisín Burke, aged 21, from Oaklawn West in Leixlip, Co Kildare, died on May 31, 2011, while holidaying with her friends on the Gili Islands.

Roisín and her friends had been drinking arak, a locally brewed spirit, at a café in Gili Trawangan two days before she died.