A WOMAN sustained fatal injuries on her way home from work when she was struck by part of a tree which was sheered off in extreme winds, Dublin City Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.

A BABY boy was born with brain damage after he was deprived of oxygen in the immediate period prior to his delivery, an inquest has heard.

THE heartbroken wife of a man who suffered complications following an operation had to break the devastating news to her “compos mentis” husband that his life-support equipment was going to be switched off.

A MOTHER-OF-THREE who died after taking a drug overdose was failed by the health system, her mother told an inquest yesterday.

A JURY at an inquest has called for the installation of street lighting at an accident blackspot following the death of a father-of-four whose car was struck from behind by another vehicle.

AN inquest into the death of a man whose defective pacemaker failed on a flight to France heard a warning had been issued by the manufacturer four months earlier, but the hospital failed to inform him.

PHONE calls made to maintenance numbers requesting the heating be switched on in an apartment block in which a young mother eventually died of hypothermia were “hung up on”, the Dublin City Coroner’s Court has heard.

THE doctor representing the family of a 30-year-old mother-of- two who died from hypothermia in her council flat, has called for an independent inquiry into her death.

IN death, as in life, Gerry Ryan has continued to with his unique talent for capture media headlines.

A BABY girl was born with head injuries due to complications of her delivery at a Dublin maternity hospital, an inquest has heard.

THE HSE has still not told the family of a young man who died having been in care whether they will release his file, despite seven requests to do so.

A FIRE that led to the death of an elderly woman was “most likely” caused by a candle or match which she lit during the night, an inquest has heard.

A SENIOR doctor at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has been accused of professional misconduct over his alleged failure to properly diagnose the results of an MRI scan on a man who died a short time later.

MEMBERS of the force look set to be trained on how to monitor and best detain suspects on methadone after proposals made at an inquest into the death of a suspected killer in garda custody.

A GARDA investigation into the death of Donna Cleary’s suspected killer found there were no suspicious circumstances when he became fatally ill in garda custody.

A NURSE has told an inquest into the death of a woman following an elective hysterectomy at a private Dublin hospital that she was “very sick” when she was transferred to the facility’s high dependency unit and the nurse “knew something serious was wrong”, an inquest has heard.

A TEENAGER who gave chase to a lone gunman on a bicycle after he shot and killed his older brother was greatly traumatised by the event and took his own life three months later.

AN elderly man who lay dead in his home for at least two days did not have central heating and died of hypothermia during a cold snap in January, an inquest heard yesterday.

THE family of Danny Talbot, a young man who died of a suspected drugs overdose shortly after leaving the care system, yesterday accused the HSE of failing him “from the cradle to the grave”.

THE family of Danny Talbot, a young man who died of a suspected drugs overdose shortly after leaving the care system, yesterday accused the HSE of failing him “from the cradle to the grave”.

The Dublin City Coroner has questioned the accuracy of statistics suggesting that Dublin has a lower incidence of suicide than the rest of the country.

A MAN suffered severe head injuries while working underneath a trailer when a mechanism in the suspension airbag failed, an inquest has heard.

A JURY has found that an elderly woman who went missing from a nursing home on Christmas night and whose remains were found more than two years later on Bray Head had left the facility at least two hours earlier than staff at the home maintained.

A WOMAN found dead in her Dublin apartment by her parents on Christmas Day died after drinking a tea made from toxic yew needles, an inquest has heard.

A SENIOR Bank of Ireland official took his own life shortly after he was transferred to another bank branch against his wishes, an inquest in Dublin heard yesterday.

THE Garda Ombudsman Commission has hit out at the Garda Representative Association (GRA) for comments it made about the watchdog in its official journal.

THE Dublin City Coroner has recommended the development of national guidelines to allow independent midwives access to services at maternity hospitals.

A PATIENT at the Central Mental Hospital died from injuries incurred while he was being restrained by staff during his transfer from one part of the facility to another, an inquest has heard.

AN armed Garda detective who fired the shots which fatally injured two raiders in a foiled post office robbery told a court yesterday that he shot the second raider, who was unarmed, because he believed he had a gun and was in fear of his life.

A detective garda who shot dead two raiders told an inquest today that there was no doubt in his mind an armed gunman was prepared to kill him.

An armed robber claimed today that elite gardaí gave no warning before shooting two of his accomplices during a foiled post office raid.

A POSTMISTRESS at Lusk Post Office who was working on the morning of an armed raid told Dublin City Coroner’s Court yesterday that she feared for her life when she realised what was happening.

HARROWING scenes of a double shooting in a foiled post office robbery were played at an inquest yesterday.

A raider smashed through the glass hatch at a post office counter with a sledgehammer as terrified staff huddled for cover in a corner, an inquest heard today.

Terrified staff and customers feared for their lives during a foiled armed robbery at a village post office in which two raiders were shot dead, an inquest heard today.

A JURY has returned a verdict of unlawful killing at an inquest into the death of Brian Murphy, the young man who died following a “vicious and sustained” assault outside the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, in August 2000.

A YOUNG woman who was discovered collapsed on the street near her mother’s, died two and a half weeks later from swelling of the brain due to cardiac arrest, due to a suspected cocaine overdose.

A YOUNG man who died from drug-related pneumonia while he was an inmate at a Dublin prison was under special observation due to risk of overdose at the time of his death, an inquest heard yesterday.

A DUBLIN woman who was taking large amounts of over-the-counter prescription drugs built up a lethal level of codeine in her blood in the hours and days before she died, an inquest heard yesterday.

THE position in which a woman, who died from hypothermic shock after consuming “a very high level” of alcohol, was lying could have contributed to her death, an inquest heard yesterday.

Forensic experts are to give evidence today at the inquest into the death of Dublin man Terence Wheelock.