Family settle action over father's death at Cork hospital during covid

Mercy University Hospital maintained it would be unfair and unjust to impose liability upon the hospital in circumstances where they were administrating the public health system in unprecedented circumstances

Father-of-10 Michael McGowan died of heart failure in January 2021. Picture via RIP.ie

A Cork woman whose father died in Mercy University Hospital, Cork, during the covid-19 pandemic has told a High Court judge she believed the 71-year old who had heart problems was “treated appallingly”. 

“We will have to live with this for the rest of our lives . We, one hundred per cent believe daddy was treated appallingly,” Shirley Barry told Mr Justice Tony O’Connor in the High Court.