A panel of mental health experts has concluded that Oscar Pistorius was not suffering from a mental illness when he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home last year, the chief prosecutor at the athlete’s murder trial said.

A PSYCHIATRIC hospital with the highest rate of staff assaults in the country cannot take on extra nurses because of cutbacks, unions have claimed.

An inquest into the deaths of Sylvia Sheils and Mary Callinan, who were brutally killed at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in 1997, gets underway this morning at the Coroner's Court.

The mother of the 8-year-old boy, Karl Murphy, who was found dead on Greystones Beach last month, was found last night in Bray, Co Wicklow after she disappeared from a care facility at the Newcastle psychiatric hospital.