Disabled people in the Aras Attracta care home were subjected to a bleak life of widespread control and conditioning, an official investigation has found.

It is being reported that a female resident has died at the Áras Attracta care home in Co Mayo.

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.

Ireland could be exposed to the practice of euthanasia in the not-too distant future, European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has warned.

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 Government backbencher has warned there is a “cloak of secrecy” around the wide-scale abuse of people with severe intellectual disabilities in hundreds of HSE-run care homes across the country.

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 have said it would be “inappropriate to comment” on reports that five members of a Co Mayo care home are to be charged with assault following an investigation into care standards at the HSE-run facility.

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.

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THE recent revelations by RTÉ of shocking levels of abuse of residents of a Co Mayo home for adults with intellectual disabilities was, at the very least, unnerving. 

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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 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.

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.

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 RTÉ Primetime Bungalow 3 programme revelations are beyond sickening and totally reprehensible to the core of Irish society. 

A Meath care home for intellectually disabled adults has been ordered to cease admissions because of serious concerns about overuse of physical restraint including an incident where a resident turned blue from lack of oxygen.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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

RTE has confirmed that it reported the abuse it recorded at the HSE-run Áras Attracta care home in Co Mayo to the Gardaí.

The sister of a woman who suffered sustained verbal and physical threats at Áras Attracta says the scandal has nothing to do with cutbacks and everything to do with "an accepted culture" of abuse.

There are few events in anyone’s life as demanding emotionally, as unnerving and undermining, as the decision faced by the parents and siblings of a child with intellectual disabilities when they realise they can no longer care for their child in their home. Commitment and unquestioning love are defeated by the hard realities of day-to-day life.

Last night’s shocking ‘Prime Time’ report on care homes ha s to prompt action on some long-needed reforms, writes Paddy Connolly

The Psychiatric Nurses Association says it would support undercover HSE staff in care homes and creches.

Elderly women with serious intellectual disabilities have been kicked, slapped, dragged across the floor and treated as "non-persons" by health workers in a special HSE facility meant to ensure their care.

The HSE has announced plans to set up a network of “safeguarding” teams to stamp out abuse of vulnerable adults in care on a week overshadowed by allegations of such behaviour.

When will it be Christmas night? ”He looks up at me with such innocent excitement in his sapphire-blue eyes that I just have to hug him. I love his excitement, though I know it’s a symptom of his intellectual disability. He shouldn’t be that excited at 13.

Nine workers at a centre for people with intellectual disabilities, which is being investigated by gardaí after the sudden death of a resident in 2012, have been taken "off duty" after separate serious abuse allegations.

An investigation is underway into allegations of serious mistreatment at a centre for vulnerable adults in Co. Mayo.