Elderly woman overcharged by nursing home, court told

A woman in her eighties was overcharged more than €67,000 over a two-year period by the nursing home she resided at, the High Court heard today.

In a bid to recover the money lawyers for retired post mistress Mary Philomena Gogarty (aged 85) obtained freezing orders against Donna Quinn, the joint owner of Riverview Nursing Home, Dublin Road, Trim, Co Meath.