Patrick Clyne News Today

THE family of a young chef who died in suspicious circumstances 40 years ago have made fresh appeals for information about his death.

Mr Nugent (23) died of crush injuries in violent incident while working as banqueting manager at Bunratty Castle party in February 1984

A defendant who was “a small cog, but a cog nonetheless” in a “significant criminal venture” was handed down a 15 month sentence, but ha...

A Clare Independent TD says a failure to publish a report into the Garda investigation in the death of Patrick Nugent is becoming ‘damaging’ to An Garda Síochána. The Nugent family viewed Judge Patrick Clyne’s report into the matter last year, but the Justice Minister says she cannot publish it due to legal advice she’s […]

A SIXMILEBRIDGE family has vowed not to meet members of a Garda Cold Case Review Team until its concerns are addressed about the process of conducting a Garda review of previous Garda investigations into the death of a 23-year-old banqueting manager.

A FORMER Minister for Justice has sidestepped questions about the appropriateness of a cold case Garda review into the death of a 23 year-old banqueting manager in 1984.

THE family of Patrick Nugent has expressed its anger and disappointment following another major setback in their bid to secure an independent public inquiry into his death in 1984.

The Justice Minister claims she has no powers to initiate an independent body outside of An Garda Síochána to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a Sixmilebridge man in 1984. Helen McEntee’s Department has ruled out the move in a letter to the family of Patrick Nugent, who have called for a ‘cold case’ […]

McEntee tells Pat Nugent’s family that an outside agency cannot examine chef’s mysterious death

A SIXMILEBRIDGE family has rejected a proposed Garda cold case review concerning the death of a 23-year-old banqueting manager, writes Dan Danaher.