State pathologist report: Heart attack was linked to burglary

Grim details were recalled yesterday of the crime which struck fear into rural Ireland when a quiet Co Limerick bachelor collapsed and died as he came upon two men carrying out a burglary at his house writes Jimmy Wolfe from the Irish Examiner.

Cousins David Casey, aged 21, from Coolock, Dublin and Michael Casey, aged 33, Clonlong Halting Site, Limerick, had pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to carrying out the burglary at the home of John O'Donoghue, at Toomaline, Doon, Co Limerick on the afternoon of August 27, 2015.