Woman awarded €500k for death of partner after op at Mercy Hospital Cork

A woman whose partner died weeks after an operation in the Mercy University Hospital, Cork, has been awarded over €500,000 by the High Court.

Mr Justice Anthony Barr said Geraldine Barry was subjected to a very traumatic event relating to the negligent care given to her partner by Mercy University Hospital. This, the judge said, caused Ms Barry to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder and a prolonged depressive disorder.

Ms Barry had, when giving evidence in the High Court case, broken down as she told she had the best life could offer with her partner, Christopher Sayer.