A judge has ordered a man facing criminal charges to be admitted into a psychiatric unit and to be placed on a waiting list for treatment at the Central Mental Hospital after his solicitor admitted he had struggled to get him the treatment he needs while in custody.

A judge has said he will have little option but to release a man likely to be found not guilty by reason of insanity unless state services can provide the acute in-patient mental health care he needs.

The solicitor for Tansanqa Radise told a judge that his client could not get a bed at the HSE's Carraig Mór centre in Cork because he had an address in Dublin.

Patients with bed sores, patients sleeping on mattresses, lack of access to therapies — all feature in the litany of failings criticised by inspectors in the latest reports from the Mental Health Commission.

Wards in a psychiatric hospital earmarked for closure were “drab, bare, institutionalised and smelly”.

VISITORS who are allowed in to see a man being involuntary detained in a Cork mental health facility for almost six years are being screened by his doctors, it has been claimed.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man who has been involuntarily detained in a psychiatric unit in Cork for almost six years is set to be transferred to the Central Mental Hospital (CMH).

THE closure of Victorian-era psychiatric institutions has been official Government policy for more than 40 years, yet hundreds of mental health patients still remain in outdated, unsuitable buildings.

Grainne Humphrys has spent years fighting a mental health system that she claims is doing her former partner more harm that good

INSPECTION reports for mental health facilities around the country have again highlighted substandard conditions in which patients are being treated.

DOCTORS, carers, campaigners and former patients have spoken out against “abusive, dehumanising and discriminatory” mental health services at a unique “recovery” conference at UCC yesterday.

JOHN Hunt turned 30 on Saturday and spent the day as a free man.

CONDITIONS at a psychiatric ward in a Limerick city hospital were described as “appalling and custodial” in the Mental Health Commission’s annual report, published yesterday.