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Inquest hears coroner’s unease over cross-border transfer of sick baby following heart op

Tragic infant’s move to Belfast from Dublin will be raised with Health Department at Stormont after staff in Royal expressed concerns during inquest

The inquest into Frankee's death was held at Laganside Courts (Niall Carson/PA)

A coroner is to write to Stormont’s Health Department over the transfer of a seriously ill baby from Dublin to Belfast following a heart operation.

Frankee-Ann Barbara McConville, known as Frankee, was born on July 5, 2018. She died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children on February 21, 2019.

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