‘Life’s the same but we won’t have to take on the system’
Matthew, now 12, and his parents Alan and Cathy won a long legal battle over his treatment at Wexford General Hospital where he was brought in suffering from an infection. It later turned out to be meningitis.
The boy is completely paralysed, confined to a wheelchair, cannot breathe without a ventilator, and can only eat by being fed through a tube.
