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The 42
07-06-2025
- Sport
- The 42
Westmeath and Offaly rack up wide-margin wins to book quarter-final spots
Westmeath 3-26 Laois 1-15 Offaly 2-25 New York 1-12 THERE WERE TWO landslide home wins in the preliminary quarter-finals of the Tailteann Cup today. But while no-one will be hugely surprised by Offaly recording a comfortable victory over New York at Tullamore, Westmeath's crushing 17-point win over Laois in Mullingar has nailed down the Lake County as the team to beat in the second-tier competition. Laois never reached the heights that they scaled in last Saturday's dramatic 3-18 to 3-16 win over Offaly, but Westmeath never allowed their fellow midlanders to get off the ground. Advertisement Even on a day when Trevor Collins put in a superb performance to curb dangerman Luke Loughlin, the rest of the Westmeath team stepped up with a superb all round performance. First among equals was midfielder Sam McCartan, who hoisted over two outstanding two-pointers in the first half and went on to score 0-8 from play in an outstanding effort. Team captain Ronan Wallace was also imperious, scoring 1-5, including goal after the first-half hooter that came from a move that began with a McCartan turnover. Loughlin also found the net with a penalty, as Westmeath took a 2-12 to 0-7 lead into the dressing room. The third quarter was a landslide, with Matthew Whittaker adding a third goal with a superb finish, while McCartan and Wallace both kicked highlight reel scores in a 1-10 to 0-2 run. Laois were a broken team by the end, and Jonah Kelly's goal – also after the hooter – will be scant consolation at the end of a tough evening. Offaly had a similar margin of victory as they went through the motions against New York. Dylan Hyland was their talisman, kicking 1-12, including a fortunate goal at the very end of their wind-assisted first half. Given some of the comebacks that have been seen under the new rules, 1-14 to 0-2 at half-time might have been seen as retrievable because a deceptively strong breeze was set to favour New York in the second half, while Offaly racked up 11 first half wides and several other missed opportunities. Instead Ruairí McNamee kicked 1-2 off the bench as they pulled 18 points clear before a New York rally late on, inspired by a goal of the season contender from Bobby O'Regan, salvaged something from the game for the Exiles.
Telegraph
18-05-2025
- Health
- Telegraph
I was branded pushy by hospital that killed my father
A woman was branded 'pushy' by an NHS hospital that's failings led to her father's death. Trevor Collins died aged 83 in 2022 from basic failures in care, days after telling his daughter, Sarah Bentley, that staff at Royal Shrewsbury hospital were 'going to kill me'. Mrs Bentley felt her concerns were ignored by hospital staff and later found they wrote on her father's medical notes: 'Family is pushy!' Mr Collins subsequently died from aspiration pneumonia on May 14 2022, after contents from his stomach entered his lungs. This week a coroner ruled the hospital was responsible for 'gross failings and neglect', which contributed to his avoidable death. Mrs Bentley told The Telegraph: 'We were really appalled by what we saw, but all our concerns fell on deaf ears.' When she requested her father's medical notes after his death, Mrs Bentley discovered staff's handwritten and underlined notes about her family. 'I don't think we were pushy enough, I wish I'd chained myself to the bed,' she said. 'Dad phoned me up at 5 o'clock one morning, saying: 'Sarah, you have to get me out of here, they are going to kill me'.' Mrs Bentley has spent the years since unable to grieve and fighting for the hospital to be held accountable after it initially failed to mark his death as a 'serious incident', meaning there was no investigation. 'I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a doctor, I'm a daughter,' she said. 'I've barely been able to grieve. Instead I've had to fight to find out what went wrong in that place.' An inquest, which concluded this week, ruled that Mr Collins's death was preventable and that the care he received at the Royal Shrewsbury hospital was 'more than suboptimal'. In his verdict, Heath Westerman, the coroner, found that systemic 'gross failings' and 'neglect' had contributed to the death. The post mortem examination found several feet of faecal matter obstructing his small bowel. Despite having a severely bloated stomach and not passing a normal bowel movement for eight weeks, doctors never considered treating Mr Collins's constipation, according to an internal report. Mr Westerman said staff had 'no plan' on how to deal with Mr Collins's constipation, showed poor use of documentation, and that moving him from ward to ward resulted in a lack of medical ownership. A key issue in Mr Collins's care was the failure to insert a nasogastric tube to drain his stomach contents – a simple intervention that could have saved his life. Mrs Bentley said: 'It was really hard for us to hear that something so simple was missed. The most basic care was lacking.' Dr John Jones, medical director at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said there had been several 'key omissions of care', and it was 'not clear' why another tube had not been put in. 'Catastrophic failures' The Royal Shrewsbury hospital has been the subject of numerous controversies in recent years. Last summer, an undercover Channel 4 documentary found patients sitting for 24 hours in waiting rooms and makeshift corridor wards. In 2022, a report revealed that more than 200 babies and nine mothers may have died because of catastrophic failures at the hospital and its sister site, the Princess Royal in Telford. Helen Morgan, MP for North Shropshire, helped Mrs Bentley secure a review and inquest after months of delays. She said it was 'concerning' she had to intervene in Mr Collins's case before any action was taken, given the historic issues the hospital has had. 'We will support management to make changes, but we will continue to hold them to account,' she said. Dr Steve McKew, the trust's deputy medical director, said: 'We offer our sincere apologies for the failings Mr Collins experienced while under our care, and for the subsequent experience of his family who rightly approached the trust with their concerns. 'We are taking rapid action to address the findings of the coroner, and have already introduced a more robust electronic recording system to monitor and record patients' bowel functions.' 'Adding any inappropriate comments to patients' notes is completely unacceptable, and we have enhanced our internal training programme to reinforce the importance of professional and sympathetic conduct.' The coroner did not order a prevention of future deaths report, claiming the trust had already made significant improvements in recent years, 'albeit that process took too long'. Addressing Mrs Bentley at the inquest, Mr Westerman said: 'I salute your bravery. I think you should be proud of what you have done on behalf of your dad.' Now Mrs Bentley wants to encourage others to advocate for their family members in hospital. 'Speak up, speak up, I can't urge people enough,' she said. 'It is your right to ask questions, to be told what's happening with your family, or when something goes wrong.'
