A stroke survivor's family has called for national hospital visiting rules to be reviewed. This comes as the country faces "a winter like none of us have experienced before" due to the pandemic, according to HSE CEO Paul Reid.
The McCarthy family, from Garrettstown near Kinsale in county Cork, made the appeal after being locked out from visiting hospitals where Jimmy McCarthy, 67, was recovering after a devastating stroke.
They eventually met him after 16 weeks. Mary McCarthy, Jimmy McCarthy’s wife, told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that no family should experience what her family went through. "It was a nightmare," she said.