WE have a great capacity to be outraged, to be angry and sad about terrible wrongs committed in our society. But we get over it quickly.

The owners of the Rostrevor Nursing Home have failed in the Circuit Court to stop residents being transferred from the home.

The Owners of the Rostrevor Nursing Home in Dublin will today appeal a court order which effectively closes the home after allegations of serious physical and verbal abuse were made to the authorities.

WE were naive to imagine that the scandal surrounding Leas Cross Nursing Home meant we need not be so fearful about how older people, our parents, maybe uncles or aunts, maybe neighbours or friends, might be abused in a nursing home.

A NURSING home that was the subject of a HSE court attempt to shut it down seven years ago has been effectively closed after serious concerns were raised for residents’ safety.

The HSE has confirmed that is has taken charge of a nursing home in south Dublin.

Maura Reynolds is not the first elderly person to go missing from care facilities. Many end with tragic consequences, as recent experience shows.

THE owner of a Dublin nursing home has been fined €8,000 and ordered to pay an additional €2,500 in costs for a series of breaches of nursing home regulations.

A 20-foot plunge from a nursing home window triggered a chain of events leading to the death of a 71-year-old resident, an inquest heard tonight.

A health board began a court bid today to shut down a Dublin nursing home because of “extemely serious” breaches of operation guidelines.