Boy awarded €2m interim settlement

A four-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who sued the HSE over injuries he sustained during his birth at Waterford Regional Hospital has settled his action with an interim payout of over €2m to cover the next five years.

If Kevin Dunphy-English had been born an hour earlier, his counsel, Dr John O’Mahony told the High Court the little boy would have been saved injury.

Kevin Dunphy-English of Carrick Road, Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny, had through his mother Jane Dunphy sued the HSE as a result of injuries allegedly sustained at the time of his birth at the hospital in July 2010.