82-year-old among seven suicide cases at town’s coroner’s court

A man aged 82 whose body was found by a home help, died by suicide, it has emerged.

“Given this man’s age this is most unusual,” Limerick coroner John McNamara noted when he recorded a suicide verdict in relation to the death of the man who lived alone in Co Limerick.

He was found dead by a home help when she arrived on one of her routine visits.