Coroner asks how did pensioner lie dead in his own home for six months

A coroner has said he finds it troubling that a reclusive pensioner, who lay dead in his inner city home for at least six months before his body was discovered, appears to have “slipped through the cracks” of society.

Cork City Coroner Philip Comyn also said he found it a little disheartening that in an age of mass communication, no alarm bells triggered with anyone when the elderly bachelor failed to collect his pension or his prescription for almost seven months.