Bid for nursing home inquiry delayed for a month to allow State to lodge opposition papers

Florence O'Shaughnessy who died in Tara Winthrop nursing home in Swords, north Co. Dublin on April 23, 2020.

A bid for an inquiry into nursing home deaths has been put back by another four weeks.

The State has been granted that time to finalise its position on the bid by 18 families, represented by law firm PA Duffy. The solicitor handling a string of wrongful death cases on behalf of families of those who died in nursing homes during the pandemic said the inquiry could be held by the end of the year but says that would be “unlikely”.