Coach driver suffered heart attack while driving CIT’s camogie team

A coach driver who played a central role in the sporting life of Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) died a day after suffering a heart attack while driving CIT’s camogie team home from a match, an inquest heard yesterday.

Seamus McCarthy, 79, from Doneraile in north Cork, was at the wheel of the bus on the night of October 20, 2015, and was driving the team home from a game in Waterford IT, when he suffered a sudden cardiac event, as he drove along the main Waterford to Cork road at around 10pm.

The bus veered off the road and crashed into a ditch in Grange, near Ardmore. Luckily, all 28 passengers escaped injury.