Report: Aras Attracta residents lived under conditions 'to make life easier for staff'

Disabled people in the Aras Attracta care home were subjected to a bleak life of widespread control and conditioning, an official investigation has found.

Residents of Aras Attracta, in Swinford, Co Mayo, were cut off from the outside world and forced to live in dull or bleak surroundings following daily rituals and rigid routines, experts said.