A hidden gem among the masses : Foul play ruled out after death of well-known Cork musician
Tributes have continued to flood in for Mr Lynch
Reuben Lynch pictured here playing bass guitar in December 2009 with the well-known Cork band, The Lynch Mob. File photo: Larry Cummins
Sat, 02 Jan, 2021 - 19:27
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Foul play has been ruled out following the death of talented Cork musician Reuben Lynch who played in the well known band, the Lynch Mob, alongside his father and brother.
Mr Lynch, 45, was found dead by his family just after 4pm on New Year s day at a house in Curraheen Drive in Bishopstown on the southside of Cork city.
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Tuesday marked the first Pfizer-BioNTech jabs to be administered at four hospitals across the country: St James’s and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Galway.
Bernie Waterhouse, a clinical nurse manager on a COVID-19 ward at St James’s, was the first healthcare worker in Ireland to get the vaccine.
She said: ‘I wanted to get the vaccine to protect myself, and the people I work with and care for every day, from COVID-19.’
Bernie Waterhouse, a clinical nurse manager on a COVID-19 ward at St James’s, was the first healthcare worker in Ireland to get the vaccine. Pic: Marc O’Sullivan
Man killed by stag at kennels in north Cork
Updated / Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020
15:27
The man has been named locally as Ger Withers (Pic: Catherine Power)
Investigations are under way after a man was killed by a stag in north Cork yesterday.
The incident took place at the Duhallow Hunt Kennels in Liscarroll.
It is understood the man went to feed the pet stag but was attacked by the animal and killed.
The man has been named locally as Ger Withers, a 45-year-old married father of three young children.
The alarm was raised by Mr Withers wife, Maria, when he failed to return home from the kennels.
Gardai and the Health and Safety Authority are investigating an accident in north Cork in which a professional huntsman, a father of a young family in his forties, was killed by a stag yesterday.
The accident took place at the Duhallow hunt kennels in Liscarroll. It is understood the deceased man who is named locally as Ger Withers, a married man and a father of three young children, went to feed the pet stag at the kennels and was attacked by the animal and killed.
The alarm was raised when he did not return home.
Mr Withers was well known in the area and highly regarded as a skilled huntsman hunting with Old English hounds.