Post mortem on young mother found dead in Cork city to be carried out today

Gardaí are hoping an autopsy, to be carried out later today, will give them some indication as to how a young mother died in a squat in Cork City.

At around 7am yesterday, Amy McCarthy was found by others in an unresponsive state in a disused commercial premises in Sheares St in the city centre, just a couple of hundred metres from the Mercy University Hospital.

Emergency services and gardaí were called, but the 22-year-old, who hailed from the southside of the city, was declared dead at the scene a short time later.