Relatives fight home closure

NINETY-THREE-year-old Esther Holden had hoped to end her days in a Dublin public nursing home that is due to close soon.

She is one of 80 residents at St Brigid’s Home, Crooksling, Brittis, and her daughter, Joyce, who chairs the Save Crooksling Hospital Action group, is fighting to keep the facility open.

Joyce said patients and their families were entirely happy with the care residents received in the recently renovated facility.