Emergency services were called to a man found unresponsive on the outskirts of Waterford City yesterday.

Shortly before 9 o’clock yesterday morning, a man was found along the John’s River Greenway.

Gardaí and ambulance were called and CPR was administered.

However, the man – who was aged in his seventies – was later pronounced dead in University Hospital Waterford.

It’s understood his death is not being treated as suspicious.

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