A former music teacher gardai suspect may have been the victim of a fatal assault was described in her home town as a “lovely, respectable woman”.
The woman, named locally as Louise Muckell, in her 50s from Cois Deel, Rathkeale, died at University Hospital Limerick on Wednesday, after gardai said she had been found with “serious injuries” at around 8.30pm at a residence at Cois Deel on Tuesday night.
The State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster, was conducting a postmortem on the victim’s body Thursday and the results of the autopsy “will determine the course of the garda investigation”, said a garda spokesman.
