Coroner: Hospital a dangerous place to be

TALLAGHT Hospital has been described as a very “dangerous place for anybody” by a coroner and as having “appallingly poor standards of sanitation” by one of its own consultants.

Questioning whether it would be safer for ill or injured people to stay at home rather than go to the hospital, Dublin County coroner Dr Kieran Geraghty said Tallaght Hospital “sounds like a very dangerous place to be for anybody, let alone a sick patient”.

Mr Geraghty was speaking at the inquest into the death of Thomas Walsh in response to comments made by Dr James Gray about conditions in the hospital.