Episode Notes — Overturned: The Grace Case

Case: The Grace case (Ireland) Location: South East Ireland (Waterford region) Period covered: 1989–2025

Key people:

• Grace — court-protected pseudonym for a woman with a significant intellectual and physical disability, non-verbal, made a Ward of Court. Her real identity has never been published and is not used in this episode.
• Mr and Mrs X — the foster carers, referred to only by this designation in official records
• Iain Smith — HSE social work manager who wrote a 2007 warning naming Grace as at risk
• Marjorie Farrelly — chair of the Commission of Investigation into Grace's case

Timeline:

• 1989 — Grace, around age 10, placed full-time i ...