{"id":48760,"date":"2025-09-07T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48760\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:35:09","slug":"it-remains-upsetting-they-cant-tell-us-why-david-died-family-of-man-found-dead-in-hospital-seclusion-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48760\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It remains upsetting they can\u2019t tell us why David died\u2019 \u2013 family of man found dead in hospital seclusion room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Inquest for David Duncan hears contested allegations that staff left their posts to attend a breakfast function\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Duncan died at Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a1d0f7f9-c184-4a68-8062-1ecf1d766ccc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">David Duncan died at Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An inquest into the death of a patient who took his own life when he was being \u201ccontinuously monitored\u201d in a hospital seclusion room has heard extraordinary allegations that staff left their posts to attend a breakfast function on the morning that he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The allegations were raised by legal counsel representing the family of David Duncan (42), who was found unresponsive at 10.30am on January 21 last year in the seclusion room in the psychiatry department of Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inquest for David Duncan hears contested allegations that staff left their posts to attend a breakfast function David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,60,19,17,11,12,5649,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-48760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-hse","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-maeve-sheehan","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}