Six years since her son’s traumatic birth, Karen finally gets to be ‘just his mother’

Karen Russell spends every second of every day looking after her son.

In the six years since Gill’s birth, Karen, from Aghada, Co Cork, has not only cared for him in every way, but has also fought his corner in a long legal battle.

In the High Court her senior counsel described her as “one hell of a mother” as she secured an interim settlement of €1.4m for her son.