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A MAN died in his car after suf- fering a heart attack yards from his home, the Coroner’s Court heard last elo
Sean Corry drove 100 yards from his home in Dunmore, Doonbeg when he fell ill, causing the car to strike a stone wall. Mr Corry was on his way to feed cattle when the acci- dent occurred. At the inquest into his death, a jury at the Coroners Court in Ennis found that Mr Corry died of natural causes.
Mr Corry was discovered by a
neighbour, Ann McInerney. She told the court that she was dropping her daughter to school when she saw Mr Corry’s car.
She said, “I saw the car of the left side of the road. The car had hit the stone wall. When I was coming back I noticed Sean Corry slumped at the wheel”.
Garda John O’Brien was called to the scene. He told the court, “I saw a green Opel Vectra embedded in a wall two foot high, 100 yards from Sean Corry’s house. I had known him for the past 12 years”.
Garda O’Brien said he believed Mr
Corry had “suffered a heart attack before the car mounted a wall near where he was going to feed cattle”.
Pathologist Dr Elizabeth Mulcahy carried out the post-mortem on Mr Corry’s body at Limerick’s Midwest- ern Hospital.
In her deposition, Dr Mulcahy told the court that there were no exter- nal injuries and that Mr Corry had a clinical history of ischemic heart Oberon
She said “In my opinion, Mr Corry had a heart attack in the previous 12 hours and then had this terminal Vo 0 ee
Dr Mulcahy said death was due to cardiac tamponade, secondary to a micro-cardial infraction.
County Coroner Isobel O’Dea told the jury “I would suggest that in the circumstances, and based on the fact that it wasn’t caused by an accident,
the verdict should be natural causes.
Ms O’Dea said, “I extend my sym- pathy to Mr. Corry’s family on this huge loss. It must have been a huge shock”. Supt Gabriel O’Gara ex- tended his sympathy to Mr Corry’s Je DOepe AYA