Man died after being kicked in head by horse

A MAN who sustained a serious head injury after being kicked by a horse on Christmas Day was rushed to a Dublin hospital for an urgent neurosurgical review when his condition rapidly deteriorated. But he died before the review could be carried out.

Maurice O’Brien, aged 51, of Derrynanool, Mitchelstown, Co Cork, died at Beaumont Hospital on June 24, 2006, six months after he sustained the head injury on December 25, 2005.

Mr O’Brien began suffering from severe headaches three weeks before his death while he was a patient at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, caid counsel for the family, Harold Brooks.