Grieving families 'unable to get truth on how loved ones died' over coroner system failings

Neil Fox in happier times with his late sister Donna. Mr Fox spoke to the Irish Examiner earlier this year about the lack of follow-up on coroner's court recommendations. See link at foot of this article. File picture

Structural failings in the coroners’ system mean that families are not provided with “an effective mechanism to get to the truth about how and why their loved one died”, an Oireachtas committee will hear on Tuesday.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) will tell the Oireachtas justice committee that grieving families are failed by the coroner system, which is in need of root-and-branch reform.