Care centres remain in dark ages

Eight months on from RTE’s shocking exposé of a number of care centres, what is being done to rectify the problem?

Conditions in some centres remain 'disturbing' and 'chilling'.

Footage from an RTE investigation of a centre for adults with intellectual disabilities in Co Mayo shocked the nation when it aired last December.

The undercover report, broadcast on Prime Time, showed some residents at a unit of the Áras Attracta care centre in Swinford being force-fed, slapped, kicked, physically restrained and shouted at.

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar said the abuse of vulnerable patients at the care home in Mayo was the ...