Care home at risk of closing over funding shortfall in 'outrageous backtracking' from Govt

St Joseph's Shankill, a dementia-specific nursing home in south Dublin and Ireland's largest dementia-only care facility, has confirmed to families and staff this weekend that it will stop taking residential admissions with immediate effect.

Management at the home have called on Health Minister Simon Harris to intervene as the move has raised concerns the facility could be forced to shut because of a funding crisis, threatening 100 jobs and 60 bed spaces for people living in the unit.