Passenger lay dead on bus for two hours

A CORONER is to ask Bus Éireann to review its procedures after an inquest heard how a man lay dead on a bus for almost two hours after he choked on raw meat.

Jim McCarthy, 37, who lived in an apartment on Grattan Hill, Cork, was found choked to death on the back seat of a bus as it drove along Lavitt’s Quay in Cork at around 1.40pm on July 8, 2010.

Cork City Coroner’s Court was told that Mr McCarthy boarded the bus at Wolfe Tone Street, on the northside of the city, carrying a white plastic bag, at about 11.51am. He sat on the back seat.