Rebecca Price and Patrick Kiely outside the Four Courts after the settlement of their High Court action for damages in 2021. Photograph: Collins CourtsHSE chief executive Bernard Gloster has provided an “unequivocal” apology on behalf of the health service to a couple who agreed to a termination after being wrongfully advised their healthy baby boy had a fatal foetal abnormality. In 2019 Rebecca Price and Pat Kiely from Phibsborough in Dublin received a misdiagnosis in the National Maternity Hospital. In a HSE statement on Saturday, Mr Gloster said he recently had the opportunity to meet Ms Price and Mr Kiely. A week later she was advised a non-invasive prenatal test, known as a harmony test, was positive for Trisomy 18.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2025 01:14 UTC