Gardaí are awaiting postmortem results on Friday before launching a murder inquiry into the death of a young man in Cork city on Thursday night. The man (20) was slashed in the neck when a row broke out at party at a house on the Bandon Road on the city’s southside around 10pm. It is understood the dispute came after four men were refused admission to the house and then tried to force their way into the house, near the Bandon Road Post Office between Green Street and Lough Road. The victim, believed to be an engineering student in Cork Institute of Technology and from west Cork, staggered up Bandon Road towards Lough Road before collapsing on the road, and his friends raised the alarm. Paramedics treated him at the scene, and he was taken to Cork University Hospital, but he died some time later.

Source: The Irish Times January 16, 2020 23:26 UTC