A round-up of today’s other stories in brief
File on death in Garda custody sent to DPP
A file on the death in Garda custody of a Dublin man has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions by the Garda Ombudsman Commission,
writes Kitty Holland.
Mark Anthony Reidy (32), Keeper Road, Drimnagh, was found collapsed and unresponsive while in custody at Terenure Garda station on December 30th, 2007.
He was brought to St James’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A postmortem found Mr Reidy died of methadone and alcohol intoxication.
Ombudsman commissioner Conor Brady told Dublin City Coroner’s Court yesterday the file was “under consideration” by the DPP and his office expected a recommendation “within weeks rather than months”.
Coroner Dr Brian Farrell adjourned the case to November 22nd.
Sudden death of Irish cinematographer
Irish cinematographer Donal Gilligan has died suddenly at the age of 46.
Gilligan had amassed an impressive list of credits including Steven Spielberg's
Saving Private Ryan, Samuel Beckett's
Endgameand
Horse, an acclaimed 30-minute short about the brutalities of impoverished rural Ireland in the 1960s. His most recent credits include the ITV series
Primevaland the new series of
Rawfor RTÉ television.
Jane Gogan, RTÉ drama's commissioning editor said: "He was just a fantastic man, one of the most diligent and talented I have worked with."
Gilligan is survived by his wife Charlotte, their three sons and one daughter.
Boy charged with having cocaine
A 16-year-old boy has been charged at Dublin Children's Court with possessing more than €26,000 worth of cocaine.
The court heard yesterday that the west Dublin teenager made no reply when he was charged with possessing the drug cocaine for sale or supply at his home address and at another location nearby on a date in January last.
Judge Bryan Smyth remanded the boy, who was accompanied to court by his mother, on bail to appear again in two weeks.
Call for rail services to be reinstated
Residents of Cabra and Finglas in Dublin are calling on IIarnród Éireann to reinstate services at Broombridge station which have been cut since the opening of the Dunboyne to Docklands rail line this month. Daily services at Broombridge station, Cabra, have been cut from 42 trains each way to 32 each way.
An Iarnród Éireann spokesman said omitting Broombridge from the new service was needed to ensure "strong journey times" from Dunboyne. It also reflected the usage of Broombridge.