Hospital swamped on night of drug death

A doctor working at Connolly Hospital on the night of the Swedish House Mafia concert told an inquest that the emergency department dealt with an unprecedented number of transfers, including stabbings, following the gig.

Emergency medicine registrar Dr Salah Bibars told the inquest into the death of Shane Brophy, aged 21, from The Swan, Crettyard in Co Laois, that the environment in A&E on the night was “quite difficult”.

Mr Brophy died at the Blanchardstown hospital on Jul 8 last year. Dublin Coroner’s Court previously heard that he had collapsed at the home of a friend after attending the concert. The pathologist gave the cause of death as drug toxicity involving “ecstasy and possibly cocaine”.