A farmer who sued claiming he never got his wife’s brain back from Cork University Hospital following the postmortem after she died has lost his High Court action.

A farmer whose wife died over two months after undergoing brain surgery yesterday partially settled his action in the High Court.

THE HUSBAND of a Cork GP who died from a brain aneurysm, days after being diagnosed with migraine, has said she was a “wonderful wife and mother”.

A DOCTOR who was discharged from Cork University Hospital (CUH) diagnosed with a migraine died within days after undergoing high-risk brain surgery for a ruptured aneurysm, an inquest heard yesterday.

A YOUNG boy is totally blind, severely brain-damaged, incontinent and needs 24-hour care after undergoing a procedure at a Cork hospital to deal with a blocked shunt/tube at the age of two, the High Court in Dublin heard yesterday.