Woman settles action over care she got at Cork University Hospital when she had brain operation

The woman's mother told the High Court: 'I have had two heart attacks in the past and I just want a nurse one night a week but they won’t give it'

The woman was speaking as her daughter, now in her 30s, settled for €1.3m a High Court action over her care when she had brain tumour surgery at Cork University Hospital when she was only eight years old. File picture: Larry Cummins

A mother who has looked after her child who has ongoing neurological deficits for the last 24 years on Thursday told a High Court judge how she has pleaded with the HSE for a nurse to help out one night a week but has been turned down.

"I have had two heart attacks in the past and I just want a nurse one night a week but they won’t give it," the woman told Mr Justice Paul Coffey.