There are renewed calls for a total ban on alcohol advertising and sponsorship.

THE crisis in the mental health services is likely to become worse unless significant action is taken at government level, the College of Psychiatry of Ireland (CPI) has warned.

UP to 1,000 staff have been lost across the mental health services around the country in the past 18 months, a leading psychiatrist has said.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese yesterday painted a grim picture of a country wracked by anxiety, as she told a conference in Dublin that “new burdens” had fallen on households because of the recession.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese yesterday painted a grim picture of a country wracked by anxiety, as she told a conference in Dublin that “new burdens” had fallen on households because of the recession.

VITAL reforms in Ireland’s mental health services will not exist for another 40 years because of the Government’s ongoing failure to adequately fund the service, medics have claimed.

ALMOST 90% of pregnant women who reported psychological problems such as depression failed to be referred to a mental health service, a study has found.