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Tue 02 Feb 2007Widow challenges coroner's findingsA widowed mother of six has brought a High Court challenge to a coroner's "perverse" decision that the smoking of cannabis had either induced or contributed to a heart attack resulting in the "death by misadventure" of her 37-year-old husband.Dublin County Coroner Kieran Geraghty had, in reaching his verdict on the cause of death of Paul Byrne, failed to consider several other matters, including research rejecting links between smoking cannabis and heart attacks, Fiona Byrne said in an affidavit.