Nearly 1,000 residents of nursing homes died from Covid-19. Prime Time reporter Oonagh Smyth speaks to the staff, managers, experts and relatives who had to deal with toll the virus inflicted. "She was living with dementia.
But she wasn't dying from it. She was very much part of the nursing home up there. She loved her food, loved to sing and loved to take part in other things up there." Bernadette O'Driscoll's mum, Phil, aged 90, had been living an active life in a Dublin nursing home until she got Covid-19 in early April and died.
Bernadette believes that the nursing home, where over ten people died from Covid-19, did everything they could to battle the virus once it was inside the home. "One of the staff that I spoke to who was with her,