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County manager Peter Hynes said at Mayo County Council’s annual budget meeting this week that he would look into the cost of paying coroners in the county. His remarks were made in response to a call by Independent councillor Frank Durcan for an investigation into the cost involved. The Castlebar based councillor questioned the figures paid out to the different coroners and how there could be such wildly different numbers of inquests held in different areas of the county.

The HSE was last evening attempting to contact all patients affected by potential misdiagnoses at UHG following reports of discrepancies in the work of a third pathologist who worked as a locum at the hospital in February and March 2004.

The 22-year-old man charged in connection with the murder of a woman in Connemara last month has secured a High Court order allowing a UK pathologist to carry out a second post-mortem on the body of the victim.

The 22-year-old man charged in connection with the murder of a woman in Connemara last month has secured a High Court order allowing a UK pathologist to carry out a second post-mortem on the body of the victim.

The inquest into the death of Evelyn Flanagan, Hollyhill, Ballyheane, Castlebar was adjourned on Wednesday evening (September 24) by Coroner for South Mayo, John O’Dwyer, until December 1. The coroner adjourned the inquest after three days following an application by Mr John Jordan, legal representative for the deceased’s husband Mr Padraig Flanagan to retain expert independent evidence from an expert on amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), which, according to the pathologist for Mayo General Hospital Dr Fandel Bennani, was what led to Mrs Flanagan death.

An inquest into the death of a 20-year-old student, whose body was discovered on the Oranmore shoreline last March nearly 38 days after he went missing, returned an open verdict, the Coroner’s Court heard last Thursday.

Last year Cervical Check, part of the National Cancer Screening Service, was launched. This programme entitles all women between the ages of 25 and 60 to a free smear test every three to five years

Ahead of Cancer Prevention Week (May 11 to May 17), Lisa Cooney from the World Cancer Research Fund is letting people in the local area know they can make a real difference to their cancer risk by making relatively simple changes to their diet.

Two new classes are being provided at Cancer Care West’s cancer support centre at 72 Seamus Quirke Road.

“If I were to die tomorrow I would prefer to die laughing rather than crying”, a statement from a girl wise beyond her years.