The placing of people with an intellectual disability in psychiatric care, sometimes for years even though they do not have a mental illness, features heavily in the complaints made last year to the health service’s confidential recipient.

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An investigation is under way into why a HSE-funded care home failed to provide timely medical intervention to a disabled person who is now very ill — despite requests from the person’s mother to intervene on her adult child’s behalf.

A woman who knows care services “from the inside out” has agreed to be the HSE’s confidential recipient of abuse claims.

They were scared, really scared, but people with disabilities showed their fighting spirit outside Government Buildings yesterday.

David Pipe is looking forward to unleashing his admirable filly Gaspara in the Daniel Gath Homes Mares Only Hurdle at Wetherby on Saturday.

ALL-IRELAND champions Kilkenny hit trouble at the double last night when the local senior hurling league semi-finals were played.