€2.9m for boy blinded in crash with mother

A SETTLEMENT of €2.9m was approved by the High Court yesterday in the case of a four-year-old boy blinded and severely brain damaged when an uninsured car, driven by his mother, collided with a wall while he was in the back seat.

The court was told there was a possibility that stem cell treatment being undertaken in Dusseldorf, Germany, might have very significant possibiliites for the child’s brain development.

The infant, Ben McHale, sued through his uncle, Wiliam McHale. The action was taken against his mother, Disislave McHale, a Bulgarian national, the driver of the car, and his father Marcus McHale – both with an address at North View, Fethard Road, Clonmel, Co, Tipperary – together with the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland.