Young boy's fast head growth not picked up during check ups

An eight-year-old boy whose fast head growth was allegedly not picked up in check ups after his birth has settled his High Court action for €1.9m.

Joe Keegan-Grant cannot speak but goes to mainstream school and is doing well, the High Court heard yesterday. He was delivered by caesarean section on January 17, 2008 after a scan had shown a cyst near the base of the baby’s brain.

Joe Keegan-Grant, of Rushfield, Creggs, Co Roscommon, had through his mother, Patricia Keegan, sued the HSE and a consultant paediatrician at Mount Carmel Hospital, Dublin, Dr Vladka Vilimkova.