By Mary Regan And Ralph Riegel

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Micheál Martin confronted by mother over daughter’s hip surgery

The Taoiseach has urged clinicians to consider spinal or other orthopaedic surgery cases from the “prism” of parents and children involved.

Micheál Martin promised to review the file of an 18-year-old with hip dysplasia who requires a €300,000 specialist operation in the United States.