Farmer claims health board kept wife’s brain

A farmer whose wife died over two months after undergoing brain surgery yesterday partially settled his action in the High Court.

Dermot Finn’s 58-year-old wife Noreen, of Faha, Killarney, Co Kerry, died in Cork University Hospital 15 years ago.

He has sued the Southern Health Board, neurosurgeons Timothy Buckley and Charles Marks of Cork University Hospital and Killarney GP, Dr Miriam McCarthy, for damages surrounding his wife’s death.