A coroner has repeated her plea to government agencies to make it compulsory for all heavy goods vehicles to have specified safety mirrors fitted so as to prevent accidents with cyclists and pedestrians.

A five-year-old boy on a weekend break with his parents and younger sibling in Killarney, Co Kerry, died after getting into difficulties in a hotel swimming pool on the morning he was due to go back to Dublin, the inquest into his death heard yesterday in Tralee.

An inquest has found that a Polish man living in Tralee, Co Kerry died from hemorrhaging and shock due to multiple stab wounds.

THE coroner’s court in Tralee has heard how two people in different locations in Tralee town had been dead for some time before they were discovered during a bitterly cold spell in early 2010.

THE father of a teenager who died in a car crash in Tralee has claimed his son would still be alive if a pole, which he said had originally been the barrel of an artillery gun, had not been on a footpath in the town.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy, staying with relations during a midterm break, died after a fall from a car bonnet, an inquest heard.

A CORONER and a jury yesterday recommended that hospitals should “liaise better” when patients were moved from one hospital to another.

THE inquest into how a 40-year-old steel erector died in a fall from a cattle shed last December was heard in Tralee before Coroner Helen Lucey.

A BRAIN haemorrhage sparked by a road traffic accident resulted in the death of a 68-year-old mother of a large family, an inquest was told in Tralee.

MYSTERY still surrounds the cause of a single-car accident which resulted in the death of a 23-year-old woman outside Killarney, early on June 27, 2006.

A 15-YEAR-OLD Kerry boy died after a vascular malformation in his brain ruptured suddenly, according to medical evidence presented at an inquest in Tralee.

THE operator of a Kerry waste recycling facility, which does not have planning permission, was yesterday given 15 months to halt all work at the site.

BABIES who are victims of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome just go to sleep and don’t take the next breath, assistant State pathologist Dr Margot Bolster told an inquest, in Tralee, yesterday.

THREE members of a family died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to smoke inhalation, following a fire in their two-storey farmhouse at Annagh, Castlemaine, Co Kerry, assistant state pathologist Dr Margot Bolster told an inquest in Tralee, yesterday.