Man pleaded to go to psychiatric facility, inquest told

The brother of a man found dead in his father’s garden told his inquest that his brother had pleaded to be admitted to a psychiatric facility following a suicide attempt four days previously but was refused because of "cutbacks".

Dominic Kiernan, 45, from Bolbrook Villas, Tallaght, Dublin, was found dead in the front garden of his father’s home at Maplewood Park in Tallaght on June 25 last year.

Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that an autopsy carried out by deputy state pathologist Dr Michael Curtis has been unable to establish Mr Kiernan’s cause of death.