Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra’s mother Elma told detectives her daughter was ‘perfectly healthy’

Martha Nolan-O’Slattara was found dead on a boat in East Hampton last week

Martha Nolan-O’Slattara was found dead on a boat in East Hampton last week

Claims that an Irish woman found dead on a yacht in the US had been battling brain cancer are being investigated by detectives probing her death.

The body of Carlow ­businesswoman Martha Nolan-O’Slat­arra (33) was found at Montauk Yacht Club in East Hampton on Long Island, New York, at 12am local time on Tuesday of last week.