“Brendan just sat there motionless and didn’t react,” recalled wedding guest John Murphy.

Five months after his death, a coroner determined that a man in Ireland had died because a piece of steak got stuck in his throat during a wedding reception.

Coroner Isobel O’Dea confirmed to PEOPLE that 67-year-old Brendan Glynn died as a result of a throat congestion.

According to the Daily MirrorThe steak was part of the main course served at a reception at the Armada Hotel in Spanish Point, Ireland, on Friday, December 22.

The outlet reported that Glynn drank three pints with fellow guest John Murphy before the meal, and Murphy said he was “fine” afterward.

Murphy recalled seeing Glynn “in good spirits” and “chatting” before the incident. He noted that Glynn had “eaten beef” before the main course and “did not give the impression that he was in any kind of trouble,” according to the Daily Mirror.

According to the outlet, Murphy said people at their table knew something was wrong with Glynn because he wasn’t moving and “seemed to have fluid coming out of the corner of his mouth.”

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“His eyes were open – I cleaned the corners of Brendan’s mouth with a tissue. Everyone at the wedding table knew at that point that something was wrong. Brendan was just sitting there motionless and unresponsive,” Murphy recalled, according to the outlet.

After off-duty nurses and paramedics present at the wedding attempted to resuscitate him, Glynn continued to have “no pulse and no breathing.”

According to the Daily MirrorAlthough Pat McCarthy, an emergency room doctor, arrived at 8:05 p.m. and managed to remove “a large piece of beef” from Glynn’s airway, his death was later pronounced at 8:45 p.m.

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The newspaper reported that Deputy State Pathologist Dr. Margot Bolster noted in the autopsy results that “medical staff had removed a number of large pieces of steak from Glynn’s airway, which were blocking the larynx.”

Bolster said, according to the outlet, that Glynn “had eaten steak, his face turned blue and he slumped over.”

The Mayo Clinic website states that symptoms of choking include an expression of “panic, shock, or confusion,” “labored or noisy” breathing, and “squeaking noises” when trying to breathe.

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“If you are the only rescuer, first strike the back and perform thrusts to the abdomen. Then call 911 or your local emergency number for help. If another person is there, have that person call for help while you administer first aid,” the medical center advises.

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