Broken arm led to death of Keane’s son

THE son of former Chief Justice Ronan Keane and social diarist Terry Keane died when fatty tissue from a broken arm sustained 24 hours earlier, travelled to his lungs forming a fatal blood clot, an inquest has found.

The body of writer and journalist Timothy Keane, aged 39, was discovered in his bedsit in a house in the Dublin suburb of Harold’s Cross on July 9 last.

An inquest into his death at Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that he had probably died two days earlier as a result of a fat embolism caused by bone marrow from a broken humerus (the bone in the upper arm) entering into his blood and curtailing the flow of oxygen into his lungs.