What happened to Martha Nolan O’Slattara? The Irish entrepreneur found dead in New York

Irish Times reporter Niamh Browne discusses the Irish fashion entrepreneur’s life and untimely death

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Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra was found dead on a boat at a yacht club in New York state on August 5th
Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra was found dead on a boat at a yacht club in New York state on August 5th

Last week, in the early hours of Tuesday, August 5th, Martha Nolan-O’Slattara was found unconscious on a boat at an exclusive yacht club in the Hamptons. She was later pronounced dead by first responders.

The 33-year-old entrepreneur from Co Carlow had been living in the United States for nearly a decade where she had set a series of pop-up clothes boutiques and lived in Manhattan’s upper east side.

US police are now trying to piece together the events that led up to the death of this young Irish woman after the result of a preliminary examination were deemed inconclusive. A final postmortem report will reportedly take at least three months to complete.

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Irish Times reporter Niamh Browne discusses the Irish fashion entrepreneur’s life and untimely death.

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Sorcha Pollak

Sorcha Pollak

Sorcha Pollak is an Irish Times reporter specialising in immigration issues and cohost of the In the News podcast

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