Baby left deaf by meningitis can hear again

A BABY who beat off a potentially deadly strain of meningitis that left him deaf has been hailed a medical miracle after his hearing was successfully restored.

Liam Coughlan, from Shanakiel in Cork, lost his hearing in late December after overcoming a severe form of meningitis.

But three months later the nine-month-old became the youngest person in Ireland to have sound-restoring implants placed in both ears simultaneously.