Clare MS sufferer forced to spend 60% of disability allowance on private care
Trish McNamara with head of operations at the Cliffs of Moher, Mark O'Shaughnessy, Cliffs of Moher Centre DAC board chair Bobby Kerr, director of rural development and West Clare Municipal District Leonard Cleary, and Cliffs of Moher Experience director, Geraldine Enright. Picture: Eamon Ward
A Clare wheelchair user, who has Multiple Sclerosis (MS), has been forced to spend almost 60% of her weekly disability allowance on private care so she can go to bed at night, due to the chronic lack of public carers in the north of the county.
Trish McNamara (52) from Ennistymon, was recently informed by the HSE that it does not have anyone available to put her to bed for six out of seven nights in the near future.
