‘They didn’t give my mother her medication’

ALMOST two years before concerns over the standard of care at Leas Cross became public knowledge in 2005, the family of Katherine Mullins contacted the then Northern Area Health Board over the treatment of their mother at the home.

The 80-year-old, originally from Carrick-on-Suir in south Tipperary, had a “very aggressive” form of Alzheimer’s and had complained she was not receiving her medication.

Staff at Leas Cross insisted this was not the case.