Mother living in hotel took her own life

A YOUNG mother living in emergency accommodation took her own life in a Dublin hotel, an inquest has heard.

The 27-year-old woman, her husband and their children were staying in two rooms on separate floors of the hotel. She suffered from depression and bouts of self-harm, an inquest into her death heard.

She was found critically ill in her hotel room at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall, Dublin 9, on December 30, 2016. The woman’s husband was upstairs with the children and he came downstairs around 2am. Witnesses heard the woman’s husband screaming for help after he entered the hotel room.

Emergency services were called and the woman was revived and transferred to the Mater Hospital. Tragically she died in hospital three days later, on January 2, 2017.

A post-mortem gave the cause of death as hypoxic brain damage due to a lack of oxygen to the brain. A toxicology screening found traces of a number of prescription drugs in the woman’s system including the anti-anxiety drug Diazepam, the anti-depressant Mirtazepine and the anti-psychotic Olanzepine, all at therapeutic levels. There was also morphine in the woman’s system.

The family had been living in the Regency Hotel for three weeks before the woman’s death. Gardaí examined CCTV footage at the hotel and were satisfied the woman’s death was not suspicious.

Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane returned a verdict of suicide.