Christopher O’Driscoll joined the proceedings in the Four Courts by video link from his nursing home. Photograph: Getty Images

A Kerry man who is paralysed from the neck down and has severe locked-in syndrome after a stroke has launched a High Court action over a brain scan carried out at University Hospital Kerry.

Christopher O’Driscoll, who cannot speak, is tetraplegic and has to use a wheelchair, joined the proceedings in the Four Courts by video link from the nursing home where he now resides.

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