If there was one over-riding message that HSE honchos wanted media to take from a tour of the new acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital on January 20, it was that all was well.

Kathleen Lynch doesn’t get it. If the psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists say that “early discharge” from hospital has a bearing on the increase in suicide rates, then they are correct.

AN ELDERLY man with Alzheimer’s disease suffered severe burns when he flooded his room in a hospital’s psychiatric unit with scalding water from a hot tap.

AN ELDERLY man with Alzheimer’s disease suffered severe burns when he flooded his room in a hospital’s psychiatric unit with scalding water from a hot tap.

THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by west Cork exhibitors John and Cathal Dineen, Kilshinihan, Timoleague, with their seven-year-old chestnut, Kilshinihan Lass.

MORE than 60 people with mental illness have put their artistic talents on display for the first time.

THE JURY at a Cork inquest returned a verdict that a 37 year-old mother of three children, who was able to walk out of a psychiatric ward, took her own life.

AN inquest was told yesterday the family of a 37-year-old psychiatric patient felt “let down” after she was found hanging in a ward at Cork University Hospital.

GF Pimlott resigned from the Tesco Board today, as previously announced.