Last-minute application to stop RTÉ show refused

Scenes of bullying by staff, appalling hygiene and general lack of medical care in a nursing home for the elderly were broadcast on national TV last night after the High Court refused to halt the programme.

Elderly residents at Lees Cross, Swords, Co Dublin were shown being verbally bullied into taking their medication. If they refused to take their medication they were forcefully told by one member of staff that they would have to go to hospital.

Visitors to the home told of seeing elderly residents walking along the corridors with soiled incontinent nappies around their ankles or, of other residents naked from the waist down.