The Garda (police) ombudsman is investigating whether an original investigation into the death of American media consultant Kate Fitzgerald was sufficiently thorough. The body of the 25-year-old head of Democrats Abroad was discovered at her home in south Dublin last August by a friend. She was believed to have taken her own life.

Irish police are to launch a fresh investigation into the death of American media consultant Kate Fitzgerald in an apparent suicide last year.

The family of Kate Fitzgerald, 25, the American-born young woman who took her own life in August, have hit out at The Irish Times for the way the newspaper treated their daughter’s final published article.

The parents of an Irish American woman based in Dublin who took her own life, are meeting with the editor of the Irish Times, Kevin O’Sullivan, over the coming days, to discuss an anonymous article written by their late daughter which appeared in the paper, was later edited and then redacted, Broadsheet.ie reports.