Gardaí are seeking to establish the cause of death of a woman in her 40s whose body was discovered at her first-floor flat on Rathmines Avenue, Dublin 6, on St Stephen’s Day. The body of the woman, who was named locally as Debbie Holmes, was found shortly after 12.30pm on Tuesday. The body of the woman was removed late on Tuesday to the city morgue in Whitehall for a postmortem examination which is due to take place on Wednesday. A neighbour who lived on the same floor of the flat complex as the dead woman said Ms Holmes was from Dublin and had a young child. “There’s always something sad that happens around Christmas” said one resident who lived in the block of flats beside Ms Holmes’s complex.

Source: The Irish Times December 26, 2017 17:37 UTC