Inquest hears Baby Grace died at Cork University Maternity Hospital after 'medical mistake'

Cork City Coroner Philip Comyn said the fact that Mrs Kirwan was not told her baby was in the breech position on May 19 was 'an opportunity missed' 
Inquest hears Baby Grace died at Cork University Maternity Hospital after 'medical mistake'

The inquest also heard that neither Charlotte Kirwan (right) nor her husband Ger (left) have been invited yet to give evidence to an external review into their own baby’s death.

An inquest has been told a baby died after a “medical mistake” before she was born.

This was according to a registrar who delivered Baby Grace Kirwan at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).

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