Cancer victim’s pain ‘ignored in A&E’

A MEATH man was left waiting “for hours” in A&E on several occasions despite being in severe agony, an inquest had heard.

Brendan Somers, aged 47, of Dunboyne, Co Meath, died from decompensated liver failure with cancer of the pancreas at St James’s Hospital on May 5, 2011.

He had presented to the hospital with severe abdominal pain several occasions in the months prior to his death, but left each time without being seen.