€1.75m settlement with HSE over birth

An 18-year-old man who claims he suffered brain damage at birth and in his treatment afterwards at Sligo General Hospital has settled his High Court action for €1.75m.

Mr Justice Kevin Cross was told that as part of the settlement Thomas O’Connor is to continue to be cared for at a residential home 20 minutes from his family home. He has been in residential care since he was 12 and his mother visits him daily.

Thomas, the court heard, is spastic quadriplegic and is blind and has to be fed through a tube.