The solicitor, the owner and the model

A MODEL, a solicitor and their mother, who said she was only guilty of “being too kind” — these are the businesswomen whose private nursing home is at the centre of Ireland’s latest health service scandal.

The glamorous Lipsett family — Therese and her daughters Avila and Sarah — regularly featured in the social diary columns of newspapers.

Now they are front-page news after shocking allegations about their Rostrevor House Nursing Home.