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A NUMBER OF packages have been found during a post-mortem on the body of the man who died on an Aer Lingus flight on Sunday night.
The post-mortem examination on the body of the Brazilian national was completed last evening.
Gardaí confirmed that a number of packages were recovered.
They have been sent for forensic analysis, and the investigation is continuing.
A woman who was on the same flight as the man who died was arrested in Cork Airport at 11pm on Sunday, and remains in garda custody.
What happened?
According to gardaí investigating the incident, the man became “agitated” while the flight from Lisbon to Dublin was in the air.
The pilot declared a medical emergency and diverted the plane to Cork.
“He was attended to by a doctor and nurse who were on the flight but was pronounced dead at the airport at 6.40pm,” a Garda spokesperson said.
His body was later taken to Cork University Hospital, where the post-mortem took place.
“A passenger on the plane received a hand injury during the incident and was treated at CUH,” gardaí said.
It’s reported the man who died bit another passenger in the course of the incident.
Arrest
Passengers and crew were interviewed by gardaí after the plane landed, and the woman in her 40s was later arrested.
She was arrested for drug trafficking offences after 1.8kg of amphetamine was found in her luggage.
The woman, who had been travelling on an Angolan passport, is being detained at Togher Garda Station in Cork and can be held for up to seven days.
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Imagine how much we could increase the wages of nurses, teachers and gardaí if we didn’t piss away $9billion on housing economic migrants and NGOs.
@Tom Barry: they prefer looking after economic migrants more than there own citizens nowadays it is actually disgraceful tbh even more so on people who keep voting these in we really need a government that looks after our own PROBLEMS first and foremost before they start looking after everybody else simple
@Happy As Larry: Be sure to let us know once our own problems are sorted so that we can move on to other pressing matters
@Happy As Larry: It’s an awful pity a lot of ‘our own’ can’t look after themselves…..full employment and there are still huge numbers that couldn’t be bothered working and want to be looked after from the cradle to the grave….also never mind the live register of unemployment,the won’t work/will never work are not on those numbers.
@SYaxJ2Ts: Hi Kev, is it really the states duty to deal with any issues except it’s own? Charity should be up to the public, spending there own money as they chose and if that’s to help others less well off in other countries, fair play. Charity should not be something that is mandated by the state at the tax payers expense.
@John Terry: i completely agree, dublin teens openin their legs and bang free gaf, then they move the father of the future sponge in and still claim single parents along with rent, elecy, gas allowances and money to spend for the week on top of that, i know one getting over 600 a week AFTER her rent and bills are paid as a lone parent with the father of the baby living with ber
@he didnt take the 120k because he already got it s: ….lol,so it’s only Dublin teens?….
@John Terry: how can there be full employment AND huge numbers of people not working… the makes absolutely no sense. It’s one or the other
Sounds like the Government is dragging its feet in the hope that inflation falls further soon.
Inflation may be coming down Éamon Ryan but prices are not, so don’t see how you maintain its good, people’s wages did not go up in line with inflation
@andy murphy: someone is clueless about economics lol
Wow! I’m shocked, this government wouldn’t lie straight in the bed. What a shower of wasters!
Nothing short of disgraceful inflation reduction has very little to do with gov policy but suddenly a bargaining tool that was not used in the last talks shame on you
Having negotiated salary increases over the last two years that were way behind inflation the unions are once again playing a blinder in helping the govt reduce people’s wages in real terms. Would be really interesting to see if these union negotiators end up being rewarded in the future with payments from govt in the form of board positions on various quangos. The old imno head retired on a pension way above what nurses get and was also rewarded with payed seat on a lucrative quango for those on it. This for ensuring nurses pay kept well below what it should be, Sile is carrying on where he left off
It is depressing to see people who post blaming immigrants for all our ills. Dragging out wage negotiations for public service workers was going on for years, long before we had the large number of immigrants.
Journal is a joke you can’t leave a comment on a serious issue graham lennihan is mostly correct why can’t we say it like it is im a male I wasn’t sure as I child I had to become happy with life allow children to develop and decide stop this pressure
@Philip Johnson: and yet here you are, leaving a comment that your claiming your not allowed to make
@Philip Johnson: GL is even less correct than your English.
Any pay increases should be tied to serious reform of working practices/contracts and especially accountability. The quality of our public services vs the money we pump into it is dismal.
Pantomime……
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