Woman claims she suffered narcolepsy after receiving swine flu vaccine

The Health Products Regulatory Authority has been joined as a defendant in a personal injury case by a woman who claims she suffered narcolepsy after receiving a vaccine for the swine flu virus, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

Aoife Bennett is among an estimated 70 people who have brought cases against the Minister for Health, the HSE and Glaxosmithkline (GSK) Biologicals S.A over being given the Pandemrix vaccine against "human swine flu" in 2009-10.