Áras Attracta care worker did not have training

An Áras Attracta worker went from mopping floors and changing beds to caring for patients without any training.

Castlebar District Court heard Kathleen King, aged 56, of Knockshanvally, Straide, Foxford, Co Mayo, who was shown in RTÉ footage slapping a resident across the face with a piece of paper and shoving her into a chair, got a pay rise when she went from domestic assistant to care assistant in 2001.

She had completed a course in manual handling in 1998, but didn’t undertake another course until 2014, and never completed Fetac training in caring and communicating for patients.