Mother weeps as €550k settlement of her son's case approved against her wishes

The High Court heard the original €550,000 settlement offer was approved after the boy’s counsel told the court that no increase could be negotiated with the State Claims Agency which represents CHI

The case before the courts centred on the care the schoolboy received at CHI at Crumlin and a biopsy of the boy’s brainstem tumour carried out at CHI Temple St (pictured) where it was claimed he suffered a stroke. File photo

A mother whose nine-year-old son has a brain tumour and terminal cancer with a limited life expectancy wept in the High Court as a judge against her wishes approved a €550,000 settlement of her son’s case against Children’s Health Ireland.

Only last May the little boy was brought to a doctor with what his mother thought was an ear infection, but the family later discovered he had an inoperable brain tumour.