Cork woman moved abroad to forget 'pain' of hospital procedure to insert pacemaker, court told

Eileen Tynan said she felt like she was being 'being ripped open' during the day procedure to insert a pacemaker at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork

Eileen Tynan is claiming she suffers from PTSD and adjustment disorder as a result of the 53-minute day procedure under local anaesthetic. File picture: Collins Courts

A woman who has claimed she felt like she was being “being ripped open” and in pain during a day procedure to insert a pacemaker in her chest under local anaesthetic at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork has told the High Court how she later left the country in an effort to forget it.

Mother of three, Eileen Tynan from Cork, told Mr Justice Paul Coffey she said to her husband she could not stay in Ireland anymore. He took early retirement, and they moved from their Cork City home to Spain.