Finlay calls on DPP to appeal term for neglect

Children’s charity head Fergus Finlay has called on the DPP to appeal the suspended four-year jail term given to a mother who neglected her seven children, because of its “undue leniency”.

On Monday, at Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Carroll Moran suspended the sentence for seven years on the 38-year-old woman, whose eldest daughter described her in court as cruel and evil.

The abuse took place over a nine-year period.