Áras Attracta report - Ireland must ratify UN convention

IT IS almost two years since the Prime Time screening of ‘Inside Bungalow 3’, an RTÉ Investigations Unit programme that exposed horrifying abuse at a residential care unit run by the HSE.

An undercover reporter posing as a student care worker revealed how seven women with intellectual and physical disabilities living in the Áras Attracta care home in Swinford, Co Mayo, were subjected to abuse.

A hidden camera showed one resident being dragged along a floor while others were slapped, force-fed, and otherwise roughly treated. It looked like the kind of treatment suffered by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.