Farmer loses action against health board

A farmer who sued claiming he never got his wife’s brain back from Cork University Hospital following the postmortem after she died has lost his High Court action.

Dermot Finn’s wife Noreen, aged 58, of Faha, Killarney, Co Kerry, died over two months after undergoing brain surgery at the hospital in 1997.

Rejecting Mr Finn’s claim against the Southern Health Board, Mr Justice Éamon de Valera said he accepted the evidence of a hospital pathology technician that he had returned the brain in a casket to Mr Finn a few weeks after the autopsy.