Coroner calls for ban on ‘unsafe’ blinds

A LEADING coroner has added weight to calls for a blanket ban on all looped- cord window blinds after another toddler lost his life after becoming entangled in the widely used product.

Dean Patrick Regan Russell, two weeks short of his second birthday, lost his life on January 7 at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. It was five days after an incident in his bedroom at Muing, Oakpark Road, Tralee, Co Kerry, his inquest heard yesterday.

It is almost identical to at least 15 other deaths in Ireland since 2005.