Cork direct provision resident may have been dead four days before being found

A postmortem was conducted on the 54-year-old woman who came from South Africa.

Residents at a Direct Provision centre near Cork City are said to be deeply shocked and upset after a woman may have lain dead in her room there for over four days before she was discovered.

The Department of Equality confirmed that a female resident died at Ashbourne House in Glounthane, with her body discovered last Friday.