ONE in six employees who admitted having experienced mental ill-health in the past two years may be jeopardising their career prospects, research shows.

It is 22 years since the almost Dickensian conditions of mentally-ill patients were identified as being in radical need of an overhaul.

IF YOU want an emotive image to portray the Irish health service, the chances are that you are going to wheel a trolley into your argument.

MENTAL health groups yesterday expressed concern at reports that the Central Mental Hospital is to be relocated to the same site as the replacement complex for Mountjoy Prison.

THE absence of a complaints system in the mental health sector is “worrying”, the Ombudsman said last night.

A NEARLY naked woman with blank eyes swayed to an internal rhythm unheard by roommates lying on filthy pallets and shackled by chains — among those remaining after fighting sent residents of the home for the mentally ill fleeing.