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Dead garda’s family calls for better help for alcoholics

The family of a former garda found frozen to death in Wales has called for better support for sufferers of alcoholism in both Ireland and Wales.

Patrick Cleary died of hypothermia after being found in a park in Bangor during a spell of cold weather before Christmas. It emerged during his inquest in Wales that he had battled addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs. His family told how Mr Cleary had joined the gardaí in 1983, married in 1988 "and was blissfully happy".

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Source: Irish Examiner, 20/08/2011

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