Tests on 'drug-death' friends

A post mortem and toxicology tests will be carried out today on the bodies of two friends who died from suspected drug overdoses.

Michael Coleman and Liam Coffey were found dead in a downstairs room of a rented house in Kinsale, Co Cork.

The alarm was raised at about 6.30am on Sunday morning by Mr Coleman’s girlfriend.

Gardaí are treating their deaths as suspicious.

Both men are 22 and are from Co Waterford.

Mr Coleman, from Dungarvan, had recently moved to the area with his girlfriend. Mr Coffey, from Cappoquin, was visiting them.

There was no signs of forced entry at the house on Abbey Lane and neither man had sustained any visible sign of injuries.

The men’s bodies were removed from the dormer terraced cottage during the day for a post mortem at Cork University Hospital, which will include toxicology tests.

It will focus on whether the pair took or ingested something which caused their deaths.