Concert-goer died from ecstasy and cocaine toxicity
Shane Brophy, aged 21, from The Swan, Crettyard in Co Laois, died at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, on July 8, 2012. He had collapsed at a friend’s apartment in Lucan after the gig. Dublin Coroner’s Court previously heard he was seen taking cocaine on the way to the concert and was seen buying pills from another concert-goer.
Emergency medicine registrar Dr Salah Bibars gave evidence that the hospital was busy with an “unprecedented number of ambulance transfers” from the concert. Mr Brophy was given Naloxone, an opiate antidote. A toxicology screen found amphetamine, methampethamine, and cocaine only in Mr Brophy’s urine. Dr Bibars said giving Naloxone while waiting for toxicology results was protocol and that it would not harm patients who had not taken opiates.
