Cork woman who claimed she asked doctor to stop procedure did not cry out in pain, judge finds

Woman's action for negligence against consultant and hospital dismissed

Eileen Tynan from Tivoli in Cork who sued over a procedure at the Bon Secours Hospital Cork. File picture: Collins Courts

A High Court judge has rejected a woman's claims that she was crying when asking a consultant cardiologist to stop as he was carrying out a pacemaker insertion procedure on her.

Mr Justice Paul Coffey said Eileen Tynan, 68, formerly of Tivoli, Co Cork, now living in Spain, "did not cry in an audible, intense and emotional way during the procedure, nor did she cry inconsolably at its conclusion or on the ward".