Man found in Nenagh recycling plant ‘did not die violently’

Initial results from a postmortem carried out on the body of a man found at a waste recycling plant on Thursday indicate he did not die violently.

The man’s body fell out of a truck at the AES waste recycling depot in Nenagh, Co Tipperary at around 9.30am.

Workers at the plant were shocked when they discovered the man’s body after they unloaded rubbish from a truck for sorting.

The body of the man, believed to be in his mid 40s, was removed from the depot to University Hospital Limerick for a postmortem.

Gardaí requested the State Pathologist Prof Marie Cassidy to conduct the post mortem after they confirmed they were treating the man’s death as “suspicious”.

“It appears the body was in a wheelie bin and it ended up in the AES depot in Nenagh,” a source said.

The man has been identified as a foreign national who had been living rough in Limerick City.

His next of kin are being contacted by gardai.

A garda forensic examination has taken place at the Nenagh depot.

“Our suspicion is that the man was sleeping rough and may have gone to sleep in an industrial skip and probably died,” a garda source said.

“He wasn’t in very good health, the post mortem found,” they added.