Connemara death may be from natural causes

THE 64-year-old Sligo man who died after an alleged altercation at a house in Ballinahown near Inverin on Sunday morning last may have died from natural causes, the Connacht Tribune understands.

Gardaí and emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 9am on Sunday morning after a man who was in the house at the time took ill following an incident with another man who had called to the residence.

An exchange of words occurred between the two men inside the house after which an alleged assault took place with the deceased suffering from what were regarded as very minor injuries.

The dead man – named locally as Charles (Charlie) Townsend from Union, Ballisodare, Co. Sligo – was rushed by ambulance to University Hospital Galway (UHG) shortly after taking ill, where he was later pronounced dead.

A Garda spokesperson told The Connacht Tribune that their investigation into the incident was ongoing and that one man had been questioned in relation to what had happened under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.

“Our investigations are continuing into an alleged assault incident and the man that we questioned on Sunday and for a time on Monday was released without charge on Monday afternoon,” said the spokesperson.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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