Coroner points to danger of stairs after man’s tragic fall

A CORONER warned of the dangers of stairs yesterday after a tragic inquest.

Cork’s city coroner Dr Myra Cullinane was speaking after an inquest into the death of Dermot Buckley, 52, from Blarney, Co Cork, last year.

Mr Buckley, who suffered from epilepsy and who was an alcoholic, was a resident of a hostel in Tower, near Blarney, when the accident happened on November 27, 2007.