Man died from drugs cocktail

A man trying to beat his addictions died from a cocktail of drugs after injecting heroin in the toilets of a fast-food restaurant in Cork City, an inquest heard yesterday.

Paul Dorney, aged 39, originally from Bishopstown but living in St Vincent’s Hostel, was found unresponsive in a toilet cubicle upstairs in the Winthrop St branch of McDonald’s just after 10.30pm on November 29 last by staff doing a security walk-round.

McDonald’s manager Lukasz Czaicki told the city coroner’s court he raised the alarm immediately. Gardaí were on the scene within minutes and performed CPR, before firefighters took over.