Boy paralysed after Wexford hospital treatment awarded €3.8m

A settlement of €3.8 million has been agreed by the Health Service Executive in the case of a 12-year-old boy who was left paralysed after being treated for meningitis. Matthew McGrath was left without the use of his arms and legs after contracting meningitis when he...

Judge orders sex abuser to hand over bank accounts

A judge has ordered an Irish dance teacher to hand over his bank records after hearing he still hasn’t paid any of a €400,000 High Court compensation order to a victim he sexually abused. Michael Quigley told Letterkenny District Court in Donegal that he didn’t have...

Mother suffered stroke after Sligo hospital birth, inquest hears

An inquest has opened into the death of a 36-year-old woman at Sligo General Hospital. Sally Rowlette, from Dromore West, died after giving birth to her fourth child in February 2013. The inquest heard that she suffered a stroke after being admitted to hospital with...

MEDICAL MISADVENTURE VERDICT RETURNED AT KIVLEHAN INQUEST

The jury at the inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan has returned a unanimous verdict of medical misadventure.Ms Kivlehan died in Belfast in 2010 as a result of multi-organ failure, days after giving birth at Sligo General Hospital.The jury of five men and...