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A whistleblower who raised concerns about Covid-19 at a Health Service Executive-run nursing home in 2020 has spoken publicly for the first time at an event calling for a public inquiry into the handling of the virus in Irish nursing homes.

Margo Hannon addressed a conference in Dublin City University - hosted by Care Champions - the representative group for people whose family members died in nursing homes during the pandemic.

Ms Hannon told today's meeting: "I strongly and confidently believe a national and human rights led public inquiry is warranted and grieving families deserve no less." She said accountability about systematic failures was needed and that "human rights do not grow old".

She said it was almost 1,000 days since she had become a whistleblower over what happened in the nursing home where she worked during the first wave of the pandemic.

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