by admin | May 19, 2017 | Medical Negligence
A doctor failed to decide that immediate delivery of a baby – who was delivered stillborn – by emergency Caesarean section was required, a Medical Council inquiry has heard. The inquiry also found that Dr Salah Aziz Ahmed failed to attend at Cavan General Hospital in...
by admin | May 11, 2017 | News
The retrial of a child-minder charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby has collapsed because a juror researched the case on the internet. Minutes after the jury had retired to consider its verdict, a juror requested to speak to Judge Martin Nolan about...
by admin | Apr 27, 2017 | Institutional and Residential Abuse
Tusla will formally outline by the end of the month its opposition to a claim brought by Co Galway man seeking information about his sister who may have died in the Tuam mother and baby home. The case has been brought by Peter Mulryan, whose infant sister Marian...
by admin | Apr 19, 2017 | Injury claims
The HSE has apologised unreservedly to the family of a part-time farmer who died in hospital three days after being admitted having injured himself cutting down a tree. The entire preventative measures that should have happened in the A&E department at Cork...
by admin | Apr 4, 2017 | Institutional and Residential Abuse
The existing redress scheme for victims of residential child abuse could be re-opened to provide redress for those abused in Mother and Baby Homes, The Irish Times reports. The recommendation is contained in the currently unpublished second interim report of the...
by admin | Mar 16, 2017 | News
A bus driver who involuntarily retired because it was alleged she could possibly pass out at the wheel due to a health condition wants to be reinstated, the High Court heard. Claire McKevitt (38), who was attached to the Phibsboro depot of Dublin Bus, alternatively...
by admin | Mar 9, 2017 | Injury claims
A hotel lift carrying five family members suffered a “catastrophic failure” crashing through four floors, a court heard. The horror accident left the passengers, who were staying in the Killarney Plaza Hotel while attending a wedding, with serious...
by admin | Mar 6, 2017 | News
The Commission has completed two test excavations of the Galway site and today confirmed that “significant quantities of human remains have been discovered” in a structure which appears to be “related to the treatment/containment of sewerage and/or wastewater”. The...
by admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Medical Negligence
The Supreme Court has refused to allow the HSE to bring a further appeal against a significant ruling seen as paving the way for higher damages awards for people who suffer catastrophic injuries. The three-judge Supreme Court indicated it might consider such a point...
by admin | Feb 9, 2017 | Medical Negligence
Emmanuel Popoola (22), of Woodbrook Hall, Castleknock, Dublin, has spastic quadriplegia, is in a wheelchair and cannot speak after suffering profound brain damage. Through his father Olayide Popoola, Emmanuel sued the Children’s University Hospital, Temple...
