CUH settles with mother for €2.5m

A mother left in a “locked-in” state after brain surgery at Cork University Hospital has settled her High Court action for damages for €2.5m.

The settlement against the HSE was without admission of liability.

It was claimed that had a brain tumour diagnosis been made on Catherine O’Leary — who had first sought help for continuous hiccoughs three years earlier — and surgery carried out, it was very probable she would have avoided catastrophic brain injury.