Friends of a man who died after taking ecstasy while attending a concert at Phoenix Park in Dublin told an inquest that he was “rambling” and talking to people who were not there.
Shane Brophy, of Crettyard, Co Laois, died at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, on July 8th last year. He had been seen taking ecstasy at the Swedish House Mafia concert in the park just hours earlier.
Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that Mr Brophy, who had recently returned from the US, travelled from Laois to attend the concert with friends.
Yvonne Byrne told the court that she saw Mr Brophy taking cocaine as the group walked down the quays toward the concert. She also saw him buying “pills” at the concert from someone she did not recognise; when she last saw him he seemed to have taken a lot of them.
Mr Brophy was staying that night at the apartment of his friend James McHugh. Mr McHugh’s brother Michael said as they were heading home he could see that he “wasn’t in a great way”.
Pathologist Dr Muna Sabah said the toxicology report showed a “lethal” level of ecstasy in his system. Cocaine was also present. She gave the cause of death as drug toxicity involving “ecstasy and possibly cocaine”.
The inquest was adjourned to December 9th to hear from doctors who treated Mr Brophy at Connolly hospital.