Harte to Harte: Cork mother's three-year court battle for daughter Jane  

When Olivia Harte heard another mother talk on the radio about her son’s catastrophic birth injury, her 'gut instinct' told her that something similar had happened to her own daughter, writes Liz Dunphy

Olivia Harte has settled for €12m her case over the alleged care her daughter recieved after her birth at the now closed City General Hospital in 1995. Picture: Collins Courts

JANE Harte had a traumatic start in life.

Hours after her birth, breathing rapidly, turning purple, and close to death “in severe septic shock”, she was rushed from a private Cork hospital to the neonatal intensive care unit in the nearby Erinville hospital.