Grieving father criticises lack of controls on alcohol sales

A grieving father told an inquest yesterday that he has a real problem with the control of alcohol after hearing that his 20-year-old son fell to his death after an all-day drinking session.

At the inquest into the death of Stephen Mungovan at the coroner’s court in Ennis, Danny Mungovan said “the consumption of alcohol was huge” on the day when his son went drinking with friends in Miltown Malbay in West Clare on October 25 last.

A post mortem of Stephen Mungovan’s remains found that he had ‘toxic’ levels of alcohol in his system. An empty 275ml bottle of vodka was found in a ditch near where Mr Mungovan fell to his death at cliffs near Spanish Point.