The HSE’s apology to the parents of Alex Butler was not sincere, writes Catherine Shanahan

Lifting his eight-year-old daughter doesn’t knock a feather out of John Butler, but why would it when she weighs just two-and-a-half stone.

Waterford Regional Hospital apologised to an 8-year-old girl who has been left tetraplegic as a result of injuries received at her birth.

Alex Butler is tetraplegic. Her physical disability means her body can be like jelly and her limbs are stiff. She gets around in a wheelchair.