Medical misadventure in death of baby boy at Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda

A verdict of medical misadventure was returned yesterday into the death of an eight-day-old boy, who suffered oxygen deprivation during his birth at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth.

The inquest in Dundalk Coroner’s Court heard that infant Killian Lally Doyle had been in the breech position, but this was not diagnosed until his mother Kim was in an advanced stage of labour.

When it was diagnosed, she had an emergency caesarean section.