NURSING home residents have alleged physical assault, verbal bullying and the forced removal of their clothes in 28 separate complaints made against staff since the Leas Cross revelations emerged.

THE Health Service Executive has pledged to ensure that any future allegations of elder abuse will be dealt with “robustly” after a report found it had failed to protect residents of a Co Meath nursing home.

A NURSE against whom three allegations of abuse had been made remained on duty in a nursing home run by the Health Service Executive (HSE) until two further incidents of alleged abuse had taken place.