Obstetrician caring for Marie Downey regrets oversight in not discussing epilepsy, inquest hears

Professor Keelin O’Donoghue told the inquest that she made an assumption that Marie's neurologist, Dr Peter Kinirons, knew his patient was pregnant.

Marie Downey and her baby son Darragh

The obstetrician who was caring for Marie Downey, and who found her dead in her hospital room with her newborn trapped beneath her, said she regrets not writing to her patient’s treating neurologist to discuss her epilepsy during her pregnancy.

Professor Keelin O’Donoghue, a consultant obstetrician at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH), described it as an oversight on her part that she now sincerely regrets.