Cork woman left with 'massive brain damage' sues over crash

Olivia Redmond-O’Callaghan was 12 weeks pregnant at the time of the accident and she gave birth to a healthy baby boy, but she has never realised she has a son

(Left to right) Olivia Redmond-O’Callaghan's stepfather Liam Power and his wife Norma Redmond Power leaving the Four Courts in Dublin today. The High Court heard the mother of two, Olivia Redmond-O’Callaghan, who was pregnant with her third child at the time of the accident when she suffered massive brain damage which has “rendered her totally incapacitated”. Photo: Collins Courts

A young mother who was catastrophically injured when the car driven by her husband collided with a tractor on a Cork road has launched a High Court action.

Olivia Redmond-O’Callaghan was only 28 years of age and left with massive brain damage and needing 24-hour care for the rest of her life after the accident on the old Cork to Glanmire Road in 2011.