Nursing home patients were treated ‘appallingly’

PATIENTS at a Cork nursing home were treated “in an appalling way” despite the fact it was owned by a doctor, the Dáil heard yesterday.

In December 2003, a Southern Health Board complaints officer warned that “ill old people should not be referred” to St Albert’s nursing home in Sunday’s Well.

She made the warning after investigating three complaints made about the nursing home, owned at the time by Dr Martin Moloney.