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...