Carers face battle for entitlements

“MY mother often says to me would you not be better off putting me into a home, I’m too much of a burden on you. We don’t want to do that because that is the end of the road.”

The words of Martin Cullen, a 47-year-old Dubliner who has been looking after his mother full-time for the past nine years – and who said his battle to provide for her is not getting any easier.

His mother, Peg, in her 80s, had a stroke a decade ago and requires full-time care.