‘He only had two days in this world, no words can express my grief’

A WOMAN WHO lost her newborn son weeks after her husband died suddenly has settled her case with the HSE. Sandra Cullivan from Longwood in Co Meath lost her baby Stevie at two days old after giving birth at Mullingar Regional Hospital on 28 April 2015. The little boy,...

Girl with cerebral palsy gets €1.9m settlement

The High Court has approved a €1.9m settlement for a three-year-old girl who suffered cerebral palsy at birth. Milogros Martin, whose mother is Peruvian and whose father Ruairi is from Co Dublin, was born in December 2011, in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda.She...

Medical Misadventure Returned at Sligo Inquest

Teresa Dwyer, from Monasteraden in Co Sligo, was a patient in the rehab unit of the hospital and had been told to bang her fist or a glass on her bedside locker or to shout if she needed attention. This was because there was no call bell system in place at the...