"Locked in" syndrome: The fight to bring Catherine home

AFTER six long years, Catherine O’Leary is edging closer to home.

Last Thursday in the High Court, the 37-year-old from Drom an Oir, Kilmoney, Carrigaline, in Co Cork, settled — via her father, Pat — an action for damages for €2.5m.

A former manager at the Subway outlet in Ballincollig and mother to Brandon, Catherine has been ‘locked in’ since she underwent brain surgery on the last day of Jan 2008 to remove a brain tumour.