Carbon monoxide alarms to be mandatory

After a number of high-profile deaths, carbon monoxide alarms will be made compulsory in Irish households from September when anybody replaces boilers, fires, heaters or stoves.

Earlier this year, 50-year-old Kevin Lucey died sitting up in an armchair at his home with his dog sitting on his lap.

Toxicology reports found that the father-of-four had died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Miriam Reidy, 35, also died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas leak at the Trident Hotel in Kinsale in 2011. She had been at a cousin’s hen party.