The court heard the child was brought to the SouthDoc clinic in circumstances where she had been feeling unwell since the previous day

Counsel said the girl’s father had on a number of occasions raised the possibility of appendicitis with the hospital treating medic but was told it was a urinary tract infection.

The parents of Conor Naughton, who was then four years old, had to pay for a private ambulance to transport their son from Wexford General Hospital to Dublin for surgery