Updated 8.35pm
GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING the death of a man found yesterday with head injuries in a laneaway in Athy, Co. Kildare.
The 56-year-old local man was discovered lying in the walkway between St John’s lane and the Greenhills housing estate after Gardaí received a telephone call reporting the body.
RTÉ reports that the man has been named locally as Larry Keane, who had links to dissident republicanism.
The man appeared to have a wound to his head and was given first-aid at the scene before being removed by ambulance to Naas Hospital where he died in the early hours of this morning.
The area has been sealed off pending a forensic technical examination and an incident room has been set up at Athy Garda Station. Anyone with information is asked to contact the station on 059-8634210.
The office of the state pathologist has been informed and the Garda technical bureau have been at the scene today.
- additional reporting Hugh O’Connell
First published 9.37am
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