James McCarthy will be 13 next month. The day he was born is a day his family will never forget — for all the wrong reasons. 

A severely disabled 12-year-old boy, whose twin brother died in the womb, is to receive an interim settlement of €2.75m for the injuries he suffered at birth.

A 12-year-old boy who can’t walk, talk or sit up on his own, has brought a High Court action for damages over catastrophic injuries he suffered in the final stages of his mother’s pregnancy.