Judge died of heart disease, inquest told

Circuit Court judge Con Murphy could have died at any time from extensive natural disease of the heart, an inquest heard yesterday.

But Cork City Coroner’s Court was told that Klacid, a drug used as part of ‘triple therapy’ for an ulcer, could have played a minor contributory role in his death in the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork last year.

Assistant state pathologist, Dr Margot Bolster, said the drug could have been one of several “trigger factors” in the judge’s sudden fatal cardiac event.