Monitoring urged after infant chokes
The Dublin coroner, Dr Brian Farrell, called for a ban on popcorn in preschool facilities after hearing the circumstances in which 18-month-old Lauren Meehan-O’Byrne from Ballynanty, Limerick, died in hospital after the incident at her creche in March last year.
She started choking after being in a room where older children had been given popcorn the previous week and a popcorn kernel was found lodged in her trachea during surgery.
