'You don’t get the care you think you should,' say family of man who died after tripping over dog leash

(Left to right) Bettina and Stephen Neligan, wife and son of Kevin Neligan leaving the inquest at Dublin County Coroner's Court at the RDS this afternoon. Ms Neligan said: "You don’t get the care that you think you should get in hospital after paying private health insurance all your life." Photo: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The family of a man who died as a result of medical complications following a fall while walking his dog have called for normal weekday care services to be maintained in hospitals over bank holiday weekends.

An inquest at Dublin Coroner’s Court heard Kevin Neligan (74) from Killiney, Co. Dublin, suffered two broken vertebrae in his neck after tripping over a dog leash while walking the family’s bull terrier on Killiney beach on February 19, 2018.