A MAN'S body was discovered in a slurry pit on a farm north of Cork city yesterday.
Gardaí are investigating after the body was found near to where a mobile phone belonging to a missing man was discovered.
Diarmuid Twomey (31) went missing before Christmas after a night out with his partner Ciara Byrne.
He was last seen near Fairhill in Cork in the early hours of Sunday December 20.
Mr Twomey's mobile phone was found in a farmyard at Ballinahina but there was no further trace of him.
The remains were found in a slurry pit on a neighbouring farm yesterday afternoon.