A post-mortem examination will be carried out today on the body of a man who died in Ennistymon yesterday.
The alarm was raised at around 4.45pm when emergency services were alerted to a man reported to be collapsed close to the Falls Hotel in Ennistymon.
An advanced paramedic rapid response vehicle (RRV) was sent from Ennis while an ambulance was also mobilised to the call. Two units of the fire brigade from Ennistymon were also requested to attend the incident which occurred just a few hundred metres from their base.
Fire crews responding to the scene were told they were going to assist a patient in cardiac arrest. On arrival, fires personnel found a man in his late 40’s lying on the ground and quickly commenced cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) air ambulance, which had been requested to attend, was stood down as it arrived in Ennistymon.
Gardaí sealed off the area which was just yards from the hotel entrance and close to the hotel carpark. A member of the Clare Garda divisional crime scene investigation unit also attended the scene.
A doctor formally pronounced the victim dead at around 6.30pm however the body remained at the scene until a senior Garda arrived and was briefed by colleagues.
The body was removed from the scene at around 7.40pm and taken to University Hospital Limerick where a postmortem examination will be carried out.
Gardaí preserved the scene overnight while the officer of the State Pathologist was notified.
Gardaí have confirmed they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the man’s death which, last night, they did not believe to be suspicious.
Its understood Gardaí are looking at the possibility that the man may have fallen from a wall or may have suffered a medical episode and collapsed.
“We will preserve the scene overnight and the State Pathologist has been notified,” a Garda spokesman said.