Boy, 7, gets €1m settlement over HSE negligence at birth

THE High Court has approved a partial settlement of €1,004,000 in the case of a seven-year-old boy left with spastic cerebral palsy following his birth at Erinville Hospital in Cork.

Shane Kenny, of Ballylouane, Ballyduff, Co Waterford, also has developmental delay and motor dysfunction arising from the circumstances of his birth on November 2, 2004. He sued the HSE for negligence through his mother Catherine, a nurse.

At the High Court yesterday, Mr Justice John Quirke was told the HSE had admitted liability, and had acknowledged and apologised for the fact it was negligent in the events leading up to the child’s birth and at his birth.