Leas Cross submissions may delay probe

AN investigation into the running of Leas Cross is unlikely to meet its completion date, because it received more evidence than it had anticipated and is trawling through more than 34,000 documents about former residents.

Submissions on more than 70 patients at the former nursing home have been given to an independent commission of investigation, set up by Health Minister Mary Harney two years after the closure of the controversial facility.

The inquiry into the management, operation and supervision at the Swords-based home is sifting through a larger than expected number of files, not only from relatives of former and deceased patients but hospitals, doctors, as well as the previous owners of Leas Cross.