THE state’s health watchdog says it remains concerned that patients are at serious risk at the country’s busiest hospital.

SAFETY concerns expressed by the state’s health watchdog about the country’s busiest hospital do not stop at its emergency department, it has emerged.

TALLAGHT Hospital has been described as a very “dangerous place for anybody” by a coroner and as having “appallingly poor standards of sanitation” by one of its own consultants.

INNOCENT plumber Anthony Campbell, who was gunned down while at work in a north Dublin house, had both arms raised in a defensive posture when he was murdered, the findings of a postmortem suggest.

THE violent shooting of Baiba Saulite was a “callous and brutal murder” which had left her two children without the “love and protection of a mother,” a coroner has said.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man who was found lying unresponsive on the floor of a seclusion room at the Central Mental Hospital where he was a patient had been dead for a few hours before he was discovered, an inquest has heard.

THE daughter of a woman who went missing from a Dublin hospital more than 31 years ago said at the conclusion of an inquest that the pain of her mother’s disappearance is as great today as it was then.

A MAN sustained fatal injuries when his racing bike was hit by a car driven by his son in a “tragic and freak accident”, an inquest has heard.

A MASSAGE therapist who went to Cameroon to add to her healing skills died of cardiac arrest after eating a native plant.

A “PREVENTABLE accident” in which a car struck a stationary ambulance transporting a gravely ill man to hospital was described at an inquest as being like “a crash test” on the TV show Top Gear.

MORE than 23,000 people have been fined in the first eight months of the year for using their mobile phones while driving, garda figures have revealed.

A DRIVER using a mobile phone smashed into a tree and died at the scene, an inquest heard yesterday.

AN inquest into the death of Latvian mother of two Baiba Saulite, who was shot dead in 2006 will be heard in full next year.

DOCTORS could not operate on a man requiring urgent surgery as there was no out-of-hours scan facility at the hospital, an inquest has heard.

THE family of a woman who went missing from a Dublin hospital more than 30 years ago are overjoyed at a decision by a coroner to direct further excavation work to be carried out in the vicinity of a trench which was filled in the morning after she disappeared.

A BROTHER of model Irma Mali’s former boyfriend, the late Marius Simanaitis, has secured a High Court order quashing an inquest verdict that Mr Simanaitis committed suicide with a handgun and a new inquest has been ordered by Mr Justice Peter Charleton.

GARDAÍ have yet to begin excavating a site where the body of a missing Alzheimer’s patient may have been hidden for more than 30 years, two months after a coroner’s court decision to re-launch the search.

A MAN died after consuming the head shop drug MDPV, which has a similar effect to cocaine, but is 20 to 30 times more potent.

GARDAÍ are to excavate a trench at a Dublin hospital in the search of a woman who went missing from the facility more than 30 years ago.

GardaI investigating the death of a woman who went missing over 30 years ago are to lead an excavation of land around the psychiatric institution where she had been an in-patient.

A MAN who was found suspended in his bathroom and who died of ligature strangulation was experimenting and did not intend to take his own life, an inquest has heard.

The High Court has ruled that a fresh inquest be held into the death of a Dublin man who died while undergoing cosmetic surgery in Colombia.

The High Court has thrown out a challenge by a widow to a coroner’s finding that cannabis smoking contributed to her husband’s fatal heart attack.

THE young Tipperary man shot dead by police in a Bolivian hotel was being investigated by the authorities there prior to his death, the country’s ambassador has told an inquest into his death.

An inquest into the deaths of two firemen killed battling a disused factory blaze was today adjourned to allow gardaí to continue their investigations.

The heartbroken family of a young Dubliner shot dead by a police officer in America today revealed they will never get justice for his killing.

PUBS should take their duty of care towards their clients more seriously, the jury recommended at an inquest into the death of a teenager who died after he was struck by a car after being sent out of a nightclub because he was intoxicated.

An experienced firefighter killed on duty with his young colleague warned superiors weeks before they died of dangerous practices in the local fire service.

FAMILY members of a man who died in hospital three days after he was transferred from a Dublin nursing home yesterday expressed concern that when they found their brother unwell in the home they were told a doctor would not be available until the following day.

THE Dublin county coroner has recorded a verdict of death by medical misadventure at an inquest into the death of a man who died the day after a routine prostate operation was performed at a private Co Kildare hospital.

A High Court action aimed at halting the inquest into the death of a young woman after she was found hanging from a door in her home has been adjourned to October.

A 20-YEAR-OLD woman who died of pneumonia attended her local GP the day before her death complaining of feeling unwell, the Dublin Corner’s Court heard yesterday.

AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy was found hanging from a bunk bed by his 10-year-old sister.

The number of patients infected with the potentially lethal hospital superbug MRSA fell slightly last year, new figures revealed today.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney yesterday insisted that hospital-acquired infection is being tackled.

An inquest into the death of a mother-of-two gunned down in her Dublin home was today adjourned for the state to consider whether to bring charges over the killing.

A 35-year old man was remanded in custody today charged with the murder of a Latvian fisherman whose body remained unidentified for weeks.

THE case of a motherof one who collapsed in the kitchen of her home after taking cocaine with her boyfriend and uncle, was one of four inquests into drug-related deaths heard at Dublin County Coroner’s Court yesterday.

ABOUT €700,000 is to be spent on the National Drug Awareness Campaign, due to start in the coming weeks.

TWO teenagers who drowned in Dublin’s Grand Canal during a night out with friends were intoxicated with ecstasy and cocaine and had gone swimming to cool down, an inquest heard yesterday.

SAYING he presided over 26 cocaine-related deaths in 2007, the Dublin County Coroner yesterday issued a stark warning to people about the dangers of using drugs, including cocaine, which he termed “by far the biggest killer” of all.

An inquest into the death of murdered crime boss Martin Hyland was adjourned for six months today to allow gardaí time to investigate the killing.

A garda sergeant and key witness are to be summonsed to attend the inquest of a teenager killed in a car crash, it emerged today.

A MAN with a profound intellectual disability, who had developed a habit of self-strangulation over the course of his life, died from asphyxia arising from the habit.