Couple to reunite in nursing home care

In the end, no amount of red tape could withstand the outrage on the national airwaves, and the threat of separating an elderly couple after 63 years of marriage evaporated.

Michael and Kathleen Devereaux will live out their days together in a Wexford nursing home after the Devereaux family highlighted their plight on RTE’s Liveline programme and the HSE was forced to backtrack through acres of bureaucracy.

On Monday, Michael, just shy of 91, said he felt his head “was going to burst” at the thought of being separated from the love of his life.