GALWAY CORONER DESCRIBES DEATHS AS UNPRECEDENTED

Date Published: 19-Sep-2008

The Galway coroner has described as "unprecedented" the death of three people who died after choking on their food this year.Anneliese Lavery from Broomhill Park, Belfast died after choking on a lobster tail in Moran's on the Weir Oyster Cottage in Kilcolgan.Elsewhere, Bernie Carroll from Ballybane, Galway and Arthur Laffey from Sandyvale died on the same day after choking on food in their homes.