Woman died after fall from fourth-floor window

A pensioner tragically died when she fell through a fourth-floor window that she was cleaning, an inquest heard.

Sarah Phelan, aged 82, was washing a windowsill of her flat at Avondale House, North Cumberland St, Dublin 1, on the evening of July 8 last year when the accident happened.

Gardaí believe she was attempting to clean pigeon droppings off the windowsill when she fell.