Tom Niland died from complications of blunt force trauma to the head, inquest told

Tom Niland was taken to Sligo University Hospital in January 2022 where he remained in ICU on a ventilator, paralysed from the neck down and unable to walk or talk. He died there on September 30, 2023.

A Sligo pensioner died from complications of blunt force trauma to the head some 18 months after a violent incident at his home.

Inspector Pat Harney told Sligo Coroner’s Court heard on Monday morning that on January 18, 2022, gardaí got a call of a burglary at Doonflynn, Skreen in west Sligo and that 75-year-old Tom Niland had been found “severely injured by neighbours.”