Protesters picket Micheál Martin's Cork office as nursing home leaves Fair Deal Scheme

A daughter of one resident at Beaumont Residential Care said: "We want our loved ones to be able to live their final days with dignity, in the place they know as home."

(Left to right) Marian Lee, Ann McSweeney, Anne Boyle, Julianne Moynihan, Paula Garvey and Siobhan O'Herlihy — relatives and friends of Beaumount Residential Care residents protest at the constituency office of Tánaiste Micheál Martin in Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan

"We want our loved ones to be able to live their final days with dignity, in the place they know as home."

Those were the words of one protester gathered outside the constituency office of Tánaiste Micheál Martin on Monday, as dozens of families called for the intervention of three of Cork's ministers in a nursing home’s leaving the Fair Deal Scheme, which they say threatens to uproot many of their loved ones who are ill with advanced dementia, Alzheimer's, and other severe ailments.