https://www.thesun.ie/news/3520616/cabbie-quizzed-cork-hit-and-run-dr-martin-lawlor-dead/TOP DOC DIES Cabbie quizzed by gardai after top psychiatrist Dr Martin Lawlor dies in Cork hit-and-runBy Ann Mooney
15th December 2018, 8:58 pm Updated: 15th December 2018, 9:00 pm
A CABBIE is being quizzed by cops after a top psychiatrist died in a hit and run in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The collision happened in bad weather conditions on the N27 Airport Road on the outskirts of Cork city shortly after 5.30am.
Dr Martin Lawlor, 49, originally from Millstreet, Co Cork was employed by the HSE. He was highly respected in medical circles both in Ireland and the UK.
It’s understood he was walking towards Cork Airport where he was staying at a hotel when he was struck by a taxi which failed to stop at the scene.
The doctor had been due to catch a flight home to England, where his wife and children live.
Later at a garda checkpoint, cops noticed a taxi with a damaged windscreen and spoke to the driver about the earlier incident.
The driver, aged in his 60s, was arrested and taken to Togher Garda Station for questioning under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.
The services of the State Pathologist’s office were requested and Dr Michael Curtis carried out a postmortem in Cork University Hospital yesterday.
Dr Lawlor was the programme lead and medical director of State of Mind Ireland which deals with mental illness in sport.