Parents fight DNR on daughter

The HSE has applied to the High Court for permission not to resuscitate a terminally ill baby girl should her condition deteriorate.

However, the mother of the eight-month-old pleaded not to have her rights as a mother taken away in relation to her child’s treatment, and described her daughter as a “gift from God”.

The baby’s mother told the President of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns she is fully aware of her daughter’s condition, for which the court heard there is no known cure.