One dead and 12 seriously ill at elderly nursing home

THE HSE is investigating whether an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis claimed the life of an 89-year-old patient and left 12 more seriously ill at one of its nursing homes.

The outbreak of the potentially deadly infection occurred at St Fionnan’s Community Nursing Unit in Achill, Co Mayo.

The man who died has been named locally as Michael James Moran from Faungloss, Clare Island.