Cian waiting 15 months for hearing test

CIAN MCINTOSH confounded the specialists when, despite a readout from a hearing test that showed no eardrum activity whatsoever, he had somehow mastered perfect speech.

His mother Pauline attributes this to the fact that his hearing difficulty seems to be intermittent, but her six-year-old son requires further tests.

She determined early on “selective” hearing was not the issue, that offers of ice cream or a trip to the beach were as unlikely to go unheard as the less appealing instruction that it was time to go to bed.