CARBON MONOXIDE DEATH: ‘Something positive can come of Miriam’s death’

As an awareness week begins, the family of a woman killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in the Trident Hotel in Kinsale, Co Cork, is campaigning for change to prevent others suffering a similar loss, writes Catherine Shanahan

The first phonecall the Reidy family received on January 9, 2011, was to tell them something had gone wrong and that they needed to make their way to Kinsale, Co Cork, as quickly as possible.

The second, about 20 minutes later, was to tell them that one daughter had died and a second daughter was unlikely to pull through.