Detectives investigating the murder of a 62-year-old taxi driver in Cork earlier this week are continuing to question a 37-year-old man arrested after he contacted gardaí about the killing.
Detectives arrested the man at a house in Passage West in Cork Harbour at around 7.15pm last night and brought him to Mayfield Garda Station for questioning about the murder of Mick Healy at his flat at Rocksprings Terrace at St Luke's Cross in the city.
The man was arrested under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act which allows gardai hold suspects for up to 24 hours without charge and gardai continuing to question him about Mr Healy's death this evening.
The Irish Times has learned that the man lived in another flat in the same building as Mr Healy and gardaí today sealed off the man's flat to allow for a forensic examination.
A post-mortem revealed that Mr Healy died from a blunt force trauma head injury and he was found lying in a pool of blood in the bathroom of his top floor flat and a garda blood forensic expert is amongst those examining the flat of the arrested man.
Supt Tom Myers of Mayfield Garda station, who is heading up the investigation, declined to comment on whether gardaí had recovered a possible murder weapon but he did confirm that gardaí had seized a number of items in the second flat.
These items are due to be sent to the State Science Laboratory in Dublin for forensic analysis as are some items of clothing which were confiscated from the 37 year old suspect when he was arrested by gardai.
A native of Grenagh in North Cork, Mr Healy was a separated father of two adult children who had lived for a period at Lagan Grove in Mayfield but for the past ten years or so since his separation, he had lived at the upstairs flat at Rocksprings Tce at St Luke's Cross.