Cork mother has lost three sons to heroin overdoses, inquest hears

“I have never heard, yet alone seen anything the like of this,” coroner Frank O’Connell said of the death of Alan Kidney, who like two of his brothers died as a result of heroin. “It is terribly sad.”

The inquest into Alan Kidney’s death in his bedroom in a house in Bandon in Co Cork on June 13 last was brief, but its impact resonates far beyond the walls of the courtroom.