A garda superintendent is to head an investigation into the death in Garda custody of a 23-year-old man who had been arrested for road traffic offences in Dublin, writes Richard Balls.
The man, whose identity has not yet been released by gardai, was found unconscious yesterday morning in a cell at Tallaght Garda station and was later pronounced dead at Tallaght Hospital.
Det Supt Cormac Gordon from Dublin Metropolitan Area North Central has been appointed to head an inquiry into the man's death. The Garda Press Office said it was standard practice for a senior officer from an outside division to investigate the full circumstances of such an incident.
The man had been detained at around midnight on Thursday by gardai in connection with road traffic offences and taken to Tallaght Garda station.
When gardai checked his cell at around 7.30 a.m. he was found unconscious and was rushed to hospital where he later died. A post-mortem was conducted yesterday afternoon by the State Pathologist, Prof John Harbison.