Consultant says there were failures in care of baby boy who died after 'acute event'

Grainne Somers with her husband Laurence leaving the coroners court inquest on Store Street Dublin today into the death of her son Laurence. Picture: Gareth Chaney 

A senior consultant has said there were failures in the care of a baby boy who died five days after suffering an “acute event” at his birth as well as the treatment of his mother who was 11 days overdue.

Baby Laurence Somers died at the Coombe Hospital in Dublin on January 28, 2018 after being transferred from St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny following complications suffered during his delivery by an emergency Caesarean section.