Referee suffers fatal brain injury

A POPULAR referee suffered a fatal brain injury after a freak electric shock in his heart caused him to collapse.

Cork Coroner’s Court heard that Gerry Kiely, 53, from Limerick probably suffered the injury after the heart arrhythmia — an irregular heartbeat — caused the collapse.

Assistant state pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster said Mr Kiely was otherwise fit and healthy and there was no evidence of heart disease.