, on March 25th to help nursing homes to replace staff out sick with Covid-19 or isolating by making more funding available to homes and a premium to low-paid care workers.
“We have seen reports in the media of nursing homes in Spain with elderly people left unattended and lying dead in their beds for days ... it is horrific – but in Ireland we are facing the same situation within weeks,” wrote the individual in an email.
Among the other letters sent to Mr Varadkar were several praising his speeches in March and his handling of the crisis along with requests to ease lockdown measures, including the 2km travel limit to allow “mostly solo” outdoor pursuits such as sailing and mountaineering. Another writer asked the Taoiseach to end “this poxy lockdown” in an expletive-filled email because they were “sick and tired of sitting in my house with me family”.
“If ye would like to lift the lockdown, I’d much appreciate it and if ye don’t, well I’m telling ye now I’ll cause upraw [sic] because u try living with my family for weeks on end,” she wrote.