Suicide mother couldn’t get access to social worker

Neans McSweeney, Barntown, Co Wexford

Sharon Grace arrived at Wexford’s Ely Hospital by taxi at 7.30pm on Saturday, desperate for help. She called into the main reception with her daughters, Mikahla, four, and Abby, three, looking for a social worker.

Social services had called to her home the previous day, after it had been reported to them that she was suffering from depression since her marriage broke up at Christmas.