Gardai have said that “for operational reasons” they would not releasing the results of a post mortem on the body of a man who died after he was assaulted in Limerick City at the weekend.
Alan Bourke, 48, a talented Limerick soccer and rugby player, and who was capped by the Republic of Ireland junior soccer team in the 1990s, was found unconscious and with serious injuries at Colbert Station Plaza, Parnell Street, at around 10.25pm on Friday night.
Paramedics tried valiantly to keep him alive at the scene and rushed him by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick, where he died shortly afterwards.
