UHL apologises as family settle case over father’s death

A Limerick family’s legal battle over the death of their father has finally come to an end, with University Hospital Limerick (UHL) apologising unreservedly in the High Court.

The apology to the family of Michael Daly Snr, of Limerick city, was read out in the Four Courts as 16 members of the Daly family attended High Court number one to hear the announcement that the family’s action over the 64-year-old man’s death had been settled.

Father of six Michael Daly Snr died in 2010, following what his son Mike Daly Jnr later described as “horrendous suffering” after a bowel operation in 2007.

After the surgery, he continued to suffer from post-operative bleeding and pain, and endured multiple hospital admissions and attendances between 2008 and March 2010, when his condition deteriorated with evidence of sepsis.

Mr Daly Snr was transferred to hospice care on April 6th, 2010, and died the next day.

On Thursday, the family’s counsel, Doireann O’Mahony BL, told the High Court…

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