Cork murderer John Walsh is first person to die with Covid in Irish prison

John Walsh at Cork District Court in March 2010. File picture: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

A man convicted of a murder in Cork in 2008 has become the first prisoner in the State to die as a result of Covid-19. 

John Walsh was serving a life sentence in the Midlands Prison following his conviction in 2010 for the murder of 25-year-old John McManus at the victim’s flat in Wellington Rd in Cork City.