Leo Varadkar ‘too busy’ to meet bereaved family to discuss failings in care of mistreated man

Health Minister Leo Varadkar is too “busy” to meet the family of the late Gerry Feeney to discuss failings in his care.

Beaumont Hospital apologised to the family after an independent review found the 81-year-old man was not treated with dignity in the last weeks of his life.

A photograph taken by a relative last December showed Mr Feeney wearing a stained hospital gown pulled up to his hips. An incontinence pad he was wearing was undone, leaving him exposed.