Peamount Healthcare nursing home in Newcastle, Co Dublin apologised "unreservedly" to the family of Kathleen Leech for distress caused by the failings in her care in June 2012.Their lawyers told the court that Ms Lynch, 68, was the "the foundation stone" of her family who had a big personality.
Counsel for the family said they had come to court not for compensation but to remember their mother and to see what good they could do. He was glad the family had remained so strong together and got some small consolation by virtue of the fact that practices had changed, so what happened will not happen to anyone else.
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