Brendan O’Connor: Aoife Johnston’s great life adventure shouldn’t have ended in ‘misadventure’

People are afraid to call an ambulance. Photo: Getty

Brendan O'Connor

We are told these days that words matter. So we really need a more suitable word than “misadventure”.

The reality is that Aoife Johnston’s death happened as simply as her parents laid it out. They told her to try and get some rest and the doctors would come. But the doctors never came…