Consular aid to 217 families for deaths abroad

The Department of Foreign Affairs assisted 217 families of people who died abroad last year and nearly 1,650 citizens who got into serious difficulties overseas.

The department’s latest involvement with bereaved families came as officials were in contact with the relatives of a 22-year-old Co Cavan man who was killed in a road accident in New Zealand last Friday night.

Martin Cadden from Loughduff, Mullahoran, who was on a working visa selling agricultural machinery, died after his car crashed into a tree.