High Court approves €15m brain damage settlement

After two previous interim awards it brings to €17.6m the total damages to provide lifelong care to Arron O'Keefe who has cerebral palsy.

Arron had sued the HSE through his mother, Helen O'Keeffe, of The Island, Kiskeam, Mallow, Co Cork, as a result of the circumstances surrounding his birth at Erinville Hospital, Western Rd, Cork, on 11 April 2006. The court heard Ms O'Keeffe had been admitted to Erinville Hospital on 11 April 2006 for planned induction of labour.At about 1.30pm a decision was made to deliver by emergency caesarean section, but when Arron was born over an hour later, he was in a very poor condition and required vigorous resuscitation.

The judge stressed that the award of damages was necessary to give Arron as normal a life as possible and was not "a fortune" as some people might think.

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