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A 17-YEAR-OLD boy with the rare nervous system disorder of Friedrich's Ataxia successfully underwent surgery to his spine only to die after he acquired the MRSA infection in hospital, an inquest in west Cork heard yesterday.

Brian Daly from Newbridge Park, Skibbereen, Co Cork, died on October 11th, 2007 at Bantry General Hospital where he had been transferred for rehabilitative treatment following spinal surgery at the Mater hospital three months earlier. At an inquest in Bantry Courthouse yesterday, Coroner Dr Frank O'Connell said it was impossible to pinpoint exactly where the teenager acquired the infection.