Mother tells hearing of outrage at son’s death

“I KNEW there was something wrong. Nobody listened to me. I was the over-anxious mother fussing about her child. Now I have no child. It’s just not good enough.”

With those words, Barbara Haran broke down yesterday as she gave evidence to a hearing of the Irish Medical Council (IMC) about how her son, Mark, died after a radiologist at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda allegedly misread an MRI scan.

Ms Haran and her husband, John, rejected claims by consultant radiologist John Hanson that he had diagnosed their eldest child as having “a grossly enlarged” part of the brain. They both questioned why Dr Hanson had failed to act with urgency if the scan had showed the results he claimed.