Eamon Macgowan

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Mother-of-three Natalia Karaczyn was reported missing by her sister on April 29th last. File photograph: Garda/PA Wire
Woman (30) unlawfully killed in Co Sligo, inquest rules

A verdict of unlawful killing has been returned in the death of a 30-year-old woman whose body was discovered on the outskirts of Sligo, two days afte(...)

Criminal investigation underway into fatal Sligo fire, inquest hears

A criminal investigation has begun into the circumstances of a fire in which a father and son died, a coroner heard on Monday. Christopher (Sunny) H(...)

Nicholas Murtagh died in Sligo University Hospital on June 17th, 2017, two weeks after the crash near his home at Doocastle, Ballymote, Co Sligo. Photograph: Alan Betson
Quad bike rider (85) died in collision with car, inquest hears

An 85-year-old man died after the quad bike he was driving was in collision with a car at a junction on a rural road in Co Sligo, an inquest heard on (...)

An angler who had been fishing nearby when the incident happened rang the coastguard. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
Man (41) died while snorkelling due to Sudden Adult Death Syndrome

A 41-year-old man who was found unresponsive, 1½ hours after he had gone snorkelling at Streedagh, Co Sligo , died as a result of Sudden Adult Death S(...)

Sam Smith was shot twice when he answered a knock on the door where he was living at Carroll Drive, Cranmore, Sligo, on December 30th, 2005. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Mother appeals for killer of ‘innocent boy’ to give himself up

The mother of a 23-year-old Sligo man who was shot dead on his sister’s doorstep almost 11 years ago has appealed to the killer to give himself up. (...)

A witness told gardaí the deceased had pulled up in his van to admire a pitbull terrier before he was shot through the open window of his van. The shooting happened outside EJ’s Menswear on Grattan Street (above), Sligo, on April 28th, 2005. File photograph: Google Street View
Man shot dead in front of girlfriend and baby, inquest told

A man was shot dead in front of his girlfriend and baby son as he sat in a parked van in a busy shopping street in Sligo, an inquest has heard. Hughi(...)

Dominic Fallon, of Kiltrustran, Strokestown, Co Roscommon - who was admitted to Sligo University Hospital the day after a catheterisation procedure - died there 90 days later, coroner Eamon MacGowan heard. File photograph: Getty Images
Man died after catheter procedure led to bowel perforation

A 79-year-old man died “after three months of torture” following a day procedure to have a catheter inserted at University College Hospital Galway, hi(...)

A woman who expressed suicidal thoughts, and was twice admitted to a psychiatric unit at Lettekenny General Hospital (pictured), died by drowning hours after she was allowed leave the hospital, an inquest has heard. Photograph: Google Streetview.
Woman died hours after being allowed out of psychiatric unit, inquest told

The family of a woman died by suicide after being allowed to leave the psychiatric unit of Letterkenny General Hospital, said she had been failed by (...)

The jury returned a unanimous verdict of unlawful killing in the case of Brandon Skeffington and a majority verdict of suicide “as a result of unsound mind” in the case of his brother Shane Michael. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Man who killed brother was released from care after six days

An inquest into the deaths of two brothers who died following an incident at their family home has heard one had been admitted to a psychiatric facil(...)

Coroner Eamonn MacGowan, who returned a verdict of death by medical misadventure, criticised the lack of a call bell system in the hospital as well as the length of time it took to summon a doctor
Inquest hears woman (86) had to bang on table to call nurses

An 86-year-old woman who died following a fall at St John’s Hospital in Sligo had been told to summon nurses by banging a glass or her fist against th(...)

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