New charges in Kinsale death case

New charges were preferred yesterday against a plumbing and heating firm following the 2011 death of a hotel guest from acute carbon monoxide poisoning in Kinsale, Co Cork.

A director of the Cork company, Richard Davis, had previously been charged with the manslaughter of Miriam Reidy who had been attending a hen party in the Trident Hotel at the time of her death.

Mr Davis, aged 45, with an address at Serenity, Killanully, Ballygarvan, Co Cork, and as a director of Davis Plumbing and Heating Contractors Ltd, also faces individual charges under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005.