Ireland's longest-running medical inquest finishes with verdict of medical misadventure

Members of Shane Banks's family — his wife Ciara flanked by his parents Margaret and Mickey, and his brothers Allen and Ray — after the medical inquest into his death in University Hospital Galway in 2019. Picture: Hany Marzouk

Questions remain for the widow and three children of Shane Banks, whose inquest is thought to be the longest medical inquest in Irish history. 

A verdict of medical misadventure was returned into the death of Shane Banks (43) at University Hospital Galway (UHG) in June 2019, following two operations he underwent for lung cancer.