{"id":408965,"date":"2026-04-20T22:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:28:21","slug":"man-sues-in-high-court-claiming-state-failed-to-protect-his-daughters-right-to-life-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408965\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sues in High Court claiming State failed to protect his daughter\u2019s right to life \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has sued in the High Court<\/a>, claiming the State failed to protect his late daughter\u2019s constitutional right to life.<\/p>\n

The daughter, who was placed in care as a minor and died in her 20s, struggled with addiction, was a victim of abuse and spent spells in prison and homeless, according to her father.<\/p>\n

He asserts that the State failed to protect his daughter\u2019s constitutional right to life, and wants a review of her care to address this claim. He also wants the review to consider care she received as a minor.<\/p>\n

The father claims that the HSE<\/a> has refused to expand the scope of a review into his daughter\u2019s care to address these issues.<\/p>\n

Michael Conlon, barrister for the man, instructed by solicitor P\u00f3l \u00d3 Murch\u00fa, on Monday appeared before Judge Sara Phelan seeking permission to pursue a judicial review of the HSE\u2019s alleged refusal to expand the scope of the review.<\/p>\n

The HSE, Ireland and the Attorney General are the proposed defendants to the action.<\/p>\n

The judge adjourned the case for one week to allow for further submissions. She ordered that the man and his daughter remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

According to the father\u2019s court documents, his daughter was taken into care when she was a child. He was in prison at this time. She \u201csuffered greatly\u201d while in foster care, residential care and secure care units, he claims. <\/p>\n

She said she \u201csuffered at the hands of the persons entrusted with her care\u201d, the father says. On turning 18, the daughter left care and was placed on an aftercare programme.<\/p>\n

The father further states: \u201c[My daughter] was a drug addict. She was homeless for long periods. She engaged in prostitution. She suffered domestic violence. She spent time in prison. She had spells in hospital. The [HSE] offered her certain help and made efforts to assist her. At times she refused to engage with help or services offered.\u201d<\/p>\n

The daughter\u2019s solicitor wrote on multiple occasions to the HSE and other State bodies regarding her health and welfare. This correspondence referred to threats to her life and the fact that she herself \u201cthought she was likely\/liable to die\u201d.<\/p>\n

The daughter died in 2014, aged in her 20s. A verdict of misadventure was recorded at an inquest into her death.<\/p>\n

Following his daughter\u2019s death, the man requested a review of care provided to her by the HSE.<\/p>\n

The National Independent Review Panel, a branch of the HSE, prepared a report, reviewing the care received by the daughter from when she was 18 until her death.<\/p>\n

The panel conducts reviews across community health and social care, including cases involving suspected failings leading to harm or compromised quality of life.<\/p>\n

Solicitors for the father wrote to the panel seeking an amendment to the review, \u201cto address the failure by the HSE and the failure by the State to protect the right to life of [the daughter]\u201d.<\/p>\n

This claim relied on Article 40 of Bunreacht na h\u00c9ireann, which states: \u201cThe State shall, in particular, by its laws protect as best it may from unjust attack and, in the case of injustice done, vindicate the life, person, good name, and property rights of every citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

They also sought an expansion of the review to consider care received by the daughter as a minor. The panel refused to expand the scope of review.<\/p>\n

The case returns next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has sued in the High Court, claiming the State failed to protect his late daughter\u2019s constitutional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1418,73,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-408965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-health-service-executive-hse","9":"tag-high-court","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}