Parents still waiting for answers 30 years after Sharon’s death

THE parents of a dead child, whose tissue samples were retained in a hospital for 29 years and her brain incinerated without their consent, criticised the health authorities yesterday for not answering their questions about her death.

Donal and Breda Murphy, from Knocknaheeny in Cork city, buried the remains of their daughter Sharon last year.

She died in St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork, in 1976, aged just seven-and-a-half months.