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Wed 04 Apr 2007Man found dead in hurling field was stabbedGardaí in Thurles, Co Tipperary, yesterday launched a murder investigation after a postmortem revealed that a man whose body was found in a hurling field in the town last Sunday died as the result of a stabbing.Supt Tony Cogan, who is leading the investigation, described the victim as "a white-skinned male of thin, athletic build, aged between 30 and 40, weighing about 13st, 6ft 1in tall, with slightly receding, greying black hair, an old scar above his right eye and an old injury to the left knee".