The Health Service Executive is reportedly promising to carry out a new inspection of a nursing home where en elderly woman died in distressing circumstances last year.

THE nursing home where a woman died, and whose body was in what was described by an undertaker as a “shocking state”, refused to answer queries yesterday.

A coroner today ordered the Health Service Executive to investigate a west Dublin nursing home after the body of an elderly patient was found in a shocking state.

A religious sect member and his wife slowly starved their infant son to death as he cried horrifically, a prosecutor said today as the man’s murder trial opened.