Inquest hears asylum seeker forced to take bus from Cork to Dublin for treatment in last weeks of life

An asylum seeker with a heart condition who was unable to walk 200 metres without extreme breathlessness spent his last few weeks of life in extreme distress as he had to take repeated trips by bus from Cork to Dublin for medical treatment, his widow has claimed at his inquest.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said that her 46-year-old husband was treated at the Mater Hospital in Dublin when the pair first arrived in Ireland in January 2017.