Swine flu case: State ‘has sympathy... but is not liable'

The State in the High Court has expressed “ greatest sympathy” for a 26-year-old woman who is suing claiming she developed narcolepsy after she got the swine flu Pandemrix vaccination.

However, counsel for the HSE and Minister for Health, Paul Gallagher, told the court as far as the State is concerned, there is no liability to Aoife Bennett.