Pre-tax profits at the country’s largest nursing home group, where two indebted Nama developers transferred ownership of the firm to their wives, increased by 58% in 2011 to €2.5m.

A DUBLIN nursing home on the site of the infamous Leas Cross home has been criticised by inspectors for serving cold food, not respecting residents’ privacy and removing pages from the complaints book.

A WRECKING ball is set to banish the physical legacy of a nursing home that closed after an undercover TV programme exposed maltreatment of its elderly residents.

THE controversial Leas Cross nursing home has reopened after agreeing changed standards and refurbishments with health inspectors.