One nursing home had just one staff nurse on duty for 44 residents on one weekend, while there was "inadequate oversight" at another nursing home where had been recent legionella contamination of the water supply.

TAXPAYERS’ money is helping to fund a potential danger to public health on a wide scale, simply because the Government is indifferent to the possibly lethal bacteria in hundreds of swimming and spa pools around the country.

A LUXURY four-star hotel in Donegal has been forced to close its pool after the bacteria which causes Legionnaires’ disease was detected in the water.

Two new samples of the Legionnaires’ bacteria have been found at Waterford Regional Hospital where a woman died of the disease earlier this month.

THE woman who died of Legionnaire’s disease was diagnosed with the condition six days before her death, it emerged last night.