A THREE-YEAR-OLD Kerry child will receive an interim payment of over €2.5m after the HSE settled a High Court action today in Dublin.

RTE reported on the Six-One News (click here for full story), that Skye Worthington was brain-damaged during her birth in Kerry General Hospital in April 2011.

She now has cerebral palsy, can only sit for a while has to be fed through a tube and can only communicate with her eyes.

Through her mother Colleen Worthington, Cloghane, Castlegregory, she sued the HSE as a result of injuries sustained during her delivery.

The HSE and Kerry General Hospital have apologised unreservedly to her and liability had been admitted in the case.

The €2.52m payment will cover her care over the next three years, after which the case will come before the courts again.