Mick Clifford: State's legal team more interested in protecting the coffers than the vulnerable

Legally, the strategy pursued by State representatives to delay court cases is sound. Morally, as people are denied the truth, it stinks to high Heaven

There is a long record of State bodies using the legal system to ensure individual citizens are fought tooth-and-nail when it comes to asserting their rights in the wake of being wronged, such was the case with former Health Minister Michael Noonan. Picture: RollingNews.ie

The chips have yet to fall into place in the nursing home charges story that emerged last weekend, but one aspect of it appears to be uncontested.

Successive Governments, over a period of decades, defended legal actions against elderly people and their families despite being aware that the litigants were entitled to a refund.