Patients admitted against their will to psychiatric hospitals can have their cases independently reviewed from today.

DESPITE one in five children suffering from mental or behavioural disorders, Ireland has just one third of the required number of child and adolescent psychiatrists.

FOUR more people, including two teenagers, have taken their own lives in the south-east region since the triple drowning of a mother and her two daughters last weekend.

PSYCHIATRISTS have warned the Tánaiste that accountability and quality of care in the mental health services will be compromised under the new Health Service Executive (HSE).

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S reign of terror included genocide, mass executions, torture and a catalogue of human rights abuses.

PAT Talbot has no hesitation in declaring himself to be a single issue candidate in June’s local elections.

TREATMENT for mentally-ill patients is “in a deplorable state” because of inadequate funding, the Irish College of Psychiatrists (ICP) said yesterday.

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A CONSULTANT psychiatrist has described a €70,000 mental health strategy report for the largest health board region in the country as “an undergraduate dissertation that was put together in a rush”.

AT least 2,000 mentally ill children are on waiting lists for psychiatric assessment and some will have to wait up to a year to be seen.

PSYCHIATRIC services can’t deal with criminal offenders suffering from mental illness because of a lack of funding and staff, experts warned yesterday.

PSYCHIATRIC patients in many areas of the country are receiving below par services because of large variations in regional funding, the Irish College of Psychiatrists (ICP) has said.

The Immigration Control Platform has urged the Government to hold a referendum to prevent the children of asylum seekers from securing automatic Irish citizenship.

The Irish Refugee Council has condemned calls by the Immigration Control Platform to have the status of asylum seekers determined before they enter the country.