Ros na Rún shines a light on elderly victims

AN older people’s organisation has welcomed the highlighting of elder abuse in TV soap Ros na Rún, which comes to a head this week when the teen tormenter of one of the programme’s favourite characters is arrested.

The story, running for the past few weeks saw Cóilín, aged in his 80s and living alone, suffering physical and mental abuse from 18-year-old Katy.

She began bullying and intimidating him when he mistakenly accused her of short-changing him in the shop where she worked.