Inquest hears man lay dead inside boarded up derelict house in Mallow for 22 years

A bouquet of flowers placed at 9 Beecher Street, Mallow, where To O'Sullivan's body was discovered. Picture: Larry Cummins

A local authority boarded up a derelict house while a dead man lay inside more than a decade after his family members raised concerns with gardaí after calling to the apparently abandoned house and getting no answer.

The revelations at the inquest on Wednesday into Tim O'Sullivan's tragic death prompted a plea from his family for an overhaul of the derelict sites system and other protocols to prevent future similar tragedies.