Aras Attracta nurse sat on resident for 'a bit of fun'

A clinical nurse manager has accepted that sitting on a female resident of Aras Attracta with severe intellectual disabilities was "unacceptable".

Pat McLoughlin (aged 56) of Lalibela, Mayfield, Claremorris, who is charged with assaulting the woman who cannot communication through speech, said he was “having a bit of fun” with the woman after she had struck him twice before the incident, but it was not caught on camera.