Mother sought help at hospital before drownings

SHARON GRACE’S death and the drowning of her two daughters should never have occurred, a coroner has said.

Yet, almost 17 months after Sharon Grace drowned her two daughters, four-year-old Mikhala, and three-year-old Abby, and then killed herself, emergency, out-of-hours numbers for social workers — which the distraught mother sought — have still not been provided to Ely Hospital staff in Wexford.

“It’s a loss of innocent lives which should never have occurred,” Wexford coroner Jimmy Murphy said, as they heard how all three died from drowning.