Court approves €11.5m compensation for boy injured in car accident

The High Court has approved an €11.5m personal injuries settlement to a 10-year-old boy who suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident, the largest in Irish legal history.

In June 2008, then six-year-old Cullen Kennedy from Loughrea, Co Galway was being driven to school by his mother Margaret when she suffered a momentary lapse of concentration and veered head -on into another vehicle.