Concerns after son’s operation were dismissed ‘as those of fussy parents’

Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, yesterday unreservedly apologised in the High Court to a four-year-old boy left profoundly brain-damaged after an operation when he was a baby.

Concerns after son’s operation were dismissed ‘as those of fussy parents’

The apology was read as part of settlement of Jude Miley’s action with an interim payment of €3.5m over the next two years.

Counsel for the hospital, Emily Egan, turned to face Jude’s parents and read out the statement in which the hospital offered an “unequivocal, unreserved, and heartfelt” apology to Jude and his family for what had happened. It said it “appreciated and greatly regretted the huge trauma” suffered.

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