Woman to get no nursing home aid

An elderly woman who claims she is facing eviction from a nursing home over €38,000 a year fees has lost a High Court bid to get the HSE to pay towards her care.

Martina Noonan, aged 77, and her farmer son Stephen, aged 38, claimed the HSE refusal means it is effectively demanding that Stephen sell the 56-acre family farm at Rinroe, Enniscrone, Co Sligo, to pay the €736 per week nursing home bill.

They claimed she has been threatened with eviction from the Ard na Greine nursing home in Enniscrone, where she has lived for three-and-a-half years, because neither she or her son can afford to pay the fees without state help.