Car crash victim, 82, buried before coroner notified

A man who died of injuries suffered in a road traffic accident was buried before a coroner had been informed of his death.

An inquest into the death of Tadgh McGinley, aged 82, of Letterkenny, Co Donegal, heard he died of spinal chord injuries from a crash 11 days before.

However, because of an “oversight”, the coroner, Denis McCauley, was not informed of the death until after Mr McGinley had been buried.