Huge protest in Nenagh town over nursing home plans

A newly-built nursing home is to be used for hospital patients instead of elderly people as initially planned

St Conlons Resident Martin Hogan speaking to Aoife McCarthy at the Save Nenagh Community Nursing Unit March and protest in Nenagh,Co Tipperary on Saturday. Picture : Eamon Ward

Elderly nursing home residents in wheelchairs joined hundreds on a protest through Nenagh town on Saturday calling for the HSE to reverse a decision to use a newly-built nursing home for hospital patients instead.

Older people in Tipperary are being “punished” for the failures of the HSE and government to address overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick, protesters said.