Spike in children with Covid-linked inflammatory illness 

Tommy O'Neill, who was hospitalised last week with PIMS TS, which is linked to Covid. 

An increasing number of Irish children are presenting to hospitals with a rare inflammatory condition linked to Covid-19, according to a consultant in Crumlin children's hospital. 

Dr Ronan Leahy, consultant in Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said while the numbers were still low, there have been more children coming into hospital with Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (PIMS TS), temporally associated with Covid-19.