Gardaí withholding results of post mortem on body of Limerick assault victim

Gardaí believe a number of people may have witnessed the fatal assault and appealed for anyone with either mobile phone video or dash cam footage to make it available to Gardaí.

It’s understood Mr Bourke died from serious head injuries.

Gardaí said that “for operational reasons” they would not releasing the results of a post mortem on the body of a man who died after he was assaulted in Limerick City at the weekend.

Alan Bourke, 48, a talented Limerick soccer and rugby player, and who was capped by the Republic of Ireland junior soccer team in the 1990s, was found unconscious and with serious injuries, at Colbert Station Plaza, Parnell Street, around 10.25pm, last Friday night.