‘Surgery delay caused father’s wedding death’

The son of a 70-year-old man who last weekend collapsed at his daughter’s wedding and later died from a heart attack, yesterday blamed lengthening HSE waiting lists for his father’s death.

Last Saturday, Clare man Tommy O’Brien collapsed on the dance floor of the Bunratty Castle Hotel in front of his daughter Karen, only hours after walking her up the aisle at Quin Church.

Efforts to revive Mr O’Brien at the scene failed and he was later pronounced dead at University Hospital Limerick.