Parents 'secure some kind of future' for daughter with €1m swine flu jab settlement

Mr Justice Paul Coffey thanked the mother for her statement and described it as ”a most chastening summary"

The teenager who received the Pandemrix vaccine (pictured) when she was five years old, the High Court heard, suffers the sleep attacks with the sudden onslaught of sleep without warning. File photo

A 16-year-old girl who suffers sleep attacks after she claims she developed a rare sleep disorder from the swine flu vaccine has settled her High Court action for €1million.

The teenager who received the Pandemrix vaccine when she was five years old, the High Court heard, suffers the sleep attacks with the sudden onslaught of sleep without warning. Her mother told the court her daughter has narcolepsy and cataplexy which affects the muscles.