Angela Kerins: I felt forced to end my life

Former Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins has told the High Court “bullying and harassment” of her was led by politicians on the Dáil public accounts committee and resulted in her becoming convinced “my death would solve the problem”.

She felt “really forced” into a decision to end her life by March 14, 2014, two weeks after she appeared before a meeting of the PAC on February 27, she said in a sworn statement read out in the High Court.

At that point, she was struggling to see a way through for either Rehab or herself and became “irrationally convinced” the solution “was for me to sacrifice myself”.