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An inquest into the death of a 14-year-old boy from Acaill in County Mayo has ended in Swinford Courthouse with Coroner for Mayo, Patrick O’Connor recording an Open Verdict into his death. Joseph McGinty died in an ambulance on his way to Mayo University Hospital on 13 September 2021. The Coroner for Mayo, Patrick O’Connor, recorded the medical cause of death as “profound adrenal pathology consistent with Addison’s Disease.” In his recommendations, Mr O’Connor called for the Pediatric Department of Mayo University Hospital to be fully and adequately resourced so that it is in a position to provide the facilities...

Nearly 200 years after Jane Austen‘s untimely death, crime novelist Lindsay Ashford has come up with a new explanation: arsenic poisoning. Austen, the English author of such classic novels as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility,” died in 1817 at age 41. Her death has been attributed to everything from cancer to Addison’s disease. But Ashford, who moved to Austen’s village of Chawton three years ago and started writing her new crime novel in the former home of Austen’s brother, stumbled across another possibility — that Austen died of arsenic poisoning. ... Ashford recognized that Austen’s symptoms could be...

KENNEDY'S SECRET DEVOTION: IS IT TRUE HE WENT TO CONFESSION THAT DAY IN DALLAS?By Michael H. BrownWe all have the memories, the motorcade, the shots ringing out, the  riderless horse, the chill winds of November. It was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy forty years ago this week and even those who weren't alive have the memories by way of all the footage that has been endlessly replayed. Who was this man? Why did it occur? What were the spiritual connotations? This is what we are exploring for the next two days and we can start by saying that...