Inside Ireland’s Coroners’ Courts: With families and gardaí needing answers, Patrick O’Connor conducts several inquests a day to determine people’s causes of death
The coroner records a verdict of death by suicide and expresses his sympathies. “Suicide is a great tragedy, it leaves unanswered questions.”The Living and the Dead: ‘Families are very much isolated from the process unless they are proactive’A separate inquest concerns a woman aged in her late 70s found dead in her bed at home on an afternoon in February 2022 by a couple, friends who regularly visited.
Dr Fadel Bennani, a pathologist, said a postmortem showed early decomposition and a large bed sore on the woman’s back indicated she had been in the bed for a long time. She had pneumonia and could have been dead for one or two days but it was difficult to pinpoint the time of death. The next inquest relates to a young man, aged in his 30s. Single, employed and described as “very outgoing”, he was found dead at his home, with a handwritten note nearby, after his mother became concerned she had not heard from him for a few days.
A verdict of death by natural causes, due to cardiac issues, was recorded. The coroner noted people sometimes wonder why an inquest is necessary in such circumstances and explained it was because the man died in a field and not, as most people do, in bed. He observed the importance of people having regular medical check-ups and extended sympathy to the family.
She called an ambulance and tried compressions on him while waiting for it to arrive. His last words were: “I can’t breathe, my chest is painful,” she said. The ambulance arrived about 40 minutes later but paramedics could not revive the man.
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