Tablets sought in dead mum’s name

A woman’s sleeping tablets were still being picked up free at the chemist on her medical card more than three weeks after she died, it emerged at Cork District Court.

Garda Hilary Lynch responded to a call to Phelan’s pharmacy at St Patrick’s Street in Cork on October 30, 2014, where a woman had handed in a prescription for medication. However, the woman left without collecting the tablets.

Insp Pat Meaney said at Cork District Court that the pharmacist became suspicious when the woman did not collect the prescription.