'We had to watch through a window to just look at her lying there taking her last breath'

Kathleen Thompson greeting her daughter Christine Brohan and granddaughter Sarah at a window of Carechoice Nursing Home, Ballynoe, Co Cork, last summer. Three weeks ago, Christine and other family members were at a window again, unable to do anything but look on as Kathleen breathed her last.
Bereaved relatives tell
the heartbreaking circumstances surrounding the deaths of their loved ones in Carechoice Nursing Home, Ballynoe