The High Court has ordered that a coroner not proceed with an ongoing inquest into the death of a 19-year old Sligo student, three days after she collapsed in a fast-food restaurant.
The High Court made its order last Friday after Damien Tansey Solicitors, for the family of the late Lisa Niland, from Drimbane, Curry, Co Sligo, sought details of an investigation into her care at Sligo University Hospital.
An inquest has already heard that Lisa Niland died on January 20th, 2017, three days after collapsing from a bleed on her brain.
She had been taken to Sligo University Hospital and was later transferred to the Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
But medics were unable to save the University of Limerick student, who was a past pupil of St Attracta’s Community College in Tubbercurry.
An inquest heard her family’s lives were shattered and ruined forever by her death.
Her parents are now challenging a Dublin coroner’s refusal to adjourn the inquest into her death until they get an external report into her care at Sligo University Hospital.
They also want the coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, not to enter final judgement pending the availability of the report, commissioned by the Saolta University Group.
The High Court, has now ordered the coroner be restrained from proceeding with the inquest and from entering a final verdict until matters raised by the family’s solicitors, Damien Tansey Solicitors, are determined.
