€900k interim payment over birth claims

Mother alleges ‘midwives chatting on the corridor’ when she needed help during birth of son in 2004

A mother told a court of her sadness and disappointment that her son had been left with cerebral palsy due to an alleged lack of monitoring at a hospital during his birth.

Margaret Beirne claimed there was a delay in the emergency surrounding the birth of her son Luke “due to midwives chatting on the corridor and a locked theatre room” in the Midland Regional Hospital.