€10.5m settlement for boy’s birth injury

The High Court has approved a settlement of €10.5 million in the case of a 12-year-old boy who was brain injured around the time of his birth. Sam Forde from Glenview Park in Sligo, sued the Health Service Executive for negligence and breach of duty over the...

‘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,...

€5m settlement over birth of Sligo boy

The settlement for Kyle Carpenter, who has cerebral palsy, was made without an admission of liability. It was achieved through mediation and was approved by the High Court. The family’s solicitor Roger Murray said afterwards that mediation should be the way...