Woman died of suspected cocaine overdose

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.

Catherine Cooney, 28, of Drumalee Road, North Circular Road, Dublin 7 died at Dublin’s Mater Hospital on September 2, 2006, Dublin City Coroner’s Court heard.

The 28-year-old mother of two was discovered lying on the road near Aughrim Church wearing just her tracksuit bottoms and a Tee-shirt on August 17, 2006.