Harney to meet Leas Cross relatives

RELATIVES of former residents of the notorious Leas Cross nursing home will meet Health Minister Mary Harney for the first time today.

Following the damning report by consultant Professor Des O’Neill into conditions at the north Dublin facility, relatives will today push for a full inquiry into how family members were transferred to and treated at the home.

Mary Hegarty, whose mother Kitty Mullins died a month after being taken out of Leas Cross in 2004, said an inquiry was the only way forward.