One-stop heart clinic to screen relatives of sudden adult death victims

FAMILIES who have lost loved ones through Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) could soon be screened for the condition at the country’s first one-stop heart clinic.

Campaigners are raising up to €3 million for the rapid-access centre at Dublin’s Tallaght Hospital following a spate of sudden deaths of active teenagers and young adults.

Last weekend Limerick hurler Willie O’Brien, 28, and Limerick mother Noelle Ray, also 28, became the latest people to die from the condition.