Family: Brian shouldn’t have been left to die in ED

A man found dead in a hospital should not have been left to die in an emergency department waiting room, his family said yesterday.

Five brothers and sisters said their farewell at the funeral of 40-year-old Brian Hamilton, discovered motionless in a chair at Tallaght Hospital last weekend.

Joined by several hundred mourners at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Drimnagh, a brother Michael Hamilton told the congregation: “I just want to say something. This is Dublin 2018, not Calcutta or the Congo. A man should not be left lying dead on a chair for four-and-a-half hours.