Medics sent man home three times before brain bleed death

A young father with severe headaches who was sent home from hospital three times in three weeks diagnosed with migraines died days later from a brain bleed.

Evan Morrissey, 28, a father-of-five from near Cashel in Co Tipperary, died in Cork University Hospital on March 22, 2014 — 20 days after his first presentation at South Tipperary General Hospital’s emergency department where he complained of a severe sudden onset headache, vomiting and neck pain.

Cork City Coroner’s Court was told that he presented at South Tipperary General’s emergency department twice more but was sent home when doctors diagnosed a migraine.