An investigation into the death of a woman in her 50s at Áras Attracta care centre in Co Mayo will examine whether staff knew she was in the kitchen.

A clinical nurse manager has been jailed for his treatment of an Aras Attracta resident.

A High Court judge has granted injunctions to five psychiatric nurses at the HSE’s Aras Attracta facility in Co Mayo restraining the HSE proceeding with an internal investigation into complaints against them.

An Áras Attracta worker went from mopping floors and changing beds to caring for patients without any training.

Over €220,000 has been spent by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to date on investigations into one of its care facilities in Mayo at the centre of allegations of abuse towards vulnerable residents.

Three nurses at the Áras Attracta home in Co Mayo have been taken off duty with pay by the HSE.

The Áras Attracta facility for people with learning disabilities has been issued with a notice of proposal to cancel the registration of one of its centres.

An unannounced Hiqa inspection of Áras Attracta, a Co Mayo facility for people with learning difficulties, has found major non-compliance with regard to the statutory rights of residents.

A centre for children with disabilities has been issued with an action plan after an inspection found a number of shortcomings, including in the management of medication.

More than 20 staff at HSE homes for people with severe intellectual disabilities have been suspended or sacked since January 2014 over physical, financial and sexual abuse claims unrelated to the Áras Attracta scandal.

Severely disabled care home residents locked up on their own and undernourished, Hiqa report finds

Six people appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting patients who are intellectually disabled at the HSE-run Áras Attracta centre in Swinford, Co Mayo.

Is Mr Tony O’Brien, chief executive of the HSE, going to put the house in order, now that those involved in the abuse of the vulnerable elderly, in Áras Attracta, are being brought to court law?

Gardaí say it would be "inappropriate" to comment on reports that five staff at the Aras Attracta care home are to face criminal charges.

Critical care standards at the Áras Attracta disability centre in Mayo were not being met a month after footage emerged showing residents being fore-fed, kicked and slapped, an inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority found.

A new report published following an unannounced HIQA inspection in Aras Attracta has found further problems with the facility.

It was inevitable that the shocking abuse of residents uncovered at Áras Attracta in Swinford, a care home for adults with intellectual disabilities, was not an isolated case.

The HSE has taken the first steps towards the possible installation of surveillance systems in its facilities to protect vulnerable patients in the wake of the Áras Attracta controversy.

The head of the HSE Tony O'Brien has confirmed that a confidential informant has been appointed to handle allegations of abuse at care homes.

It has been confirmed that the HSE inquiry into treatment of residents at Aras Attracta will be delayed until after a garda inquiry is completed.

The HSE will host a "national summit for disabilities" today, at which senior personnel will outline the measures that have been taken to address the evidence of alleged abuse at Aras Attracta in Swinford, Co Mayo.

How can we take to the streets to fight for water charges but not to support Áras Attracta residents, asks Fergus Finlay.

Back in the days when I was a junior reporter with RTÉ and the Troubles were going on north of the Border, a mad young producer got the idea that someone should go Up There and capture covert recordings of just how difficult the British Army and the RUC were to people from the Republic. 

The head of the HSE has been called to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee tomorrow as pressure mounts on the Government to establish a full inquiry into the abuse of residents in care homes.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has opened up the possibility of criminal action in response to the Áras Attracta scandal after it emerged that a 12th worker at the home has been suspended over abuse claims.

The HSE has been investigating two serious claims of physical abuse against adults and foster children with intellectual disabilities in the south-east since 2012 — but has failed to publish any reports on the matter.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has said she has an open mind on what should happen after the HSE and gardaí’s Áras Attracta abuse inquiries end.

A health watchdog has been urged to conduct a retrospective review of all complaints sent to it about alleged abuse at care homes after concerns they were not acted on due to a misunderstanding with another public protection body.

The family of one of the women seen being kicked and threatened by nurses at Aras Attracta has hit out at the alleged death threats and online abuse aimed at the perpetrators, insisting they “abhor violence in every shape or form” and will not support “mob rule”.

Groups makes radical call as HSE vows to punish care home abuse

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has come under intense pressure to open a public inquiry into the Áras Attracta abuse scandal, after families said the State cannot be trusted to root out what happened.

Senior HSE officials are set to hold a major summit on Tuesday over concerns the Áras Attracta scandal could be repeated in more of the country’s 900-plus residential institutions.

Irish people will be “complicit” in the Áras Attracta abuse if they do nothing in response to the revelations, and must decide now “if we are going to be silent or act” on the scandal.

The Government has not ruled out an independent inquiry into shocking acts of cruelty and abuse against intellectually disabled residents in a Co Mayo care centre.

A sister of one of the women abused at Aras Attracta care home has urged the Government to open a public inquiry and not “wait for somebody to die”.