For months after his daughter's death, Chris Sainsbury sought solace in a cream jumper he was wearing in the days before Bryonny's death.
At one stage in the hospital, he explained, his daughter, who was in severe pain, put her head on his chest, leaving some make-up marks and fake tan stains on the top.
"For months after, I could still smell her, so I used to cuddle into it, because her smell was all over it, that's gone now."
It has been over four years since 25-year-old Bryonny Sainsbury from Briskill, Newtownforbes in Co Longford, died after being crushed by a horse while assisting a veterinary procedure at a riding stable.
In the apology read to the court, hospital management offered a "sincere and unreserved apology" for the failures in care provided to Ms Sainsbury.
It acknowledged the "deep grief and enduring impact" her death had on her family who cherished her.
The High Court heard Bryonny and her family had "pleaded for help" over three days in Mullingar hospital before she was transferred to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
An inquest in 2024 into her death heard some of the advice provided by staff at Beaumont was not followed and that she could have been saved if she had been transferred to Beaumont sooner.
The inquest returned a verdict of medical misadventure.
Bryonny died from her injuries at Beaumont Hospital on 31 August 2021, devastating her family and her friends and leaving them with many questions around her care.
"Bryonny was funny, full of fun, mischievous, she was a great girl," said her mother, Alison.
"She was a go-getter, she worked hard, opening her own hair salon at the age of 21. I know she was our daughter, but she was a good person."
Bryonny opened The Hair Bar in the village of Newtownforbes in 2019 and was out the door with customers.
She loved social media and promoting her hair extension work online.
"She was the busiest one in the whole country for extensions," Alison said.
"The owner of the company told us that after Bryonny died. Bryonny didn't know that though. She didn't realise how good she was."
As obsessed as she was with hair, Bryonny's first love was horses.
She got her first pony when she was six years old.
She often posted photos online alongside "her babies".
"Horses were her outlet. They were her babies. She loved going down to the yard and doing everything from mucking out to flat work, everything, she loved it all," Alison said.
In a cruel twist, it was during veterinary treatment for a horse, that Bryonny sustained her injuries.
It was pointed out in the High Court that the horse had been spooked and through no one's fault, Bryonny was crushed against a wall and suffered a fracture to her skull and a host of other injuries.
The Sainsbury family say the apology this week has not brought any peace or closure because they are forever living with Bryonny's death.
They say the fight to get answers has been gruelling and has taken its toll on all the family, mentally and physically.
"It's a process that needs to be changed and the fact that it's allowed to be carried out in this archaic way is disturbing," Alison said.
"As if it's not bad enough watching your child die, and asking and begging for help and knowing it is falling on deaf ears.
"Seeing what it's done to our family, Bryonny's brothers Gregory and Arron. And Chris, it's destroyed him. He had a breakdown 18 months after Bryonny died.
"To watch your husband go through that is soul destroying. People have no idea what it does to a family."
The family believes cases like Bryonny's need to be resolved quicker.
"There's proof that they can sort these cases out far, far quicker than what they do. They put their hands up and yet we were still fighting the system, and this keeps happening, time and time again.
"We aren't alone, we're hearing about these cases every single week."
The Sainsbury family still has questions, and even as they continue to grieve the loss of their beautiful, fun-loving daughter and sister, their fight to get answers goes on.
"We've had no correspondence at all from the Health Minister. Bernard Gloster (HSE Chief Executive) hasn't reached out to us.
"Why? I want answers, and I will push until I get answers. They can't keep treating families like this."
In a statement, Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll McNeill said she extends her sympathies to the family and friends of Bryonny.
"She is available to meet the family at a time of their choosing," it said.
Likewise, Mr Gloster has said he is available and willing to meet the family.
They remain hopeful that despite everything they have endured, Bryonny's death will bring about change.
"Bryonny's legacy to us is not a chair for somebody to sit on, it's not a painting for somebody to look at, it's to bring about changes that will help other patients and staff in hospitals," Alison said.
An independent review of Bryonny's death found ten failures in her treatment at the Regional Hospital Mullingar and made 15 recommendations for future patient care.
"We fought for these new governances in general hospitals and we need to make sure that they are adhered to," Alison said.
"They can't just be words. They've got to prove that these systems are working from the top down."
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