A man who leaned over and put his hand in a hot tub in the garden of a property he was viewing contracted Legionnaires' disease from it and died six weeks later.
A Dublin city inquest was told that Robert Brophy (69) went to the property in Cunningham Drive, Dalkey, Co Dublin, on March 7th, 2003. With his wife and one of his daughters he was taken around the house and garden by the auctioneer.
The cover was taken off the hot tub in the garden and he leaned over it to take a better look. He felt the hot water remarking: "Oh God, that's fantastic!". They left and thought no more about it.
Five days later Mr Brophy of Woodstown Rise, Woodstown Village, Knocklyon, Dublin, became unwell and after visiting his GP, he was admitted to Tallaght hospital on March 15th.