A mental health centre has received a damning inspection report due to privacy concerns and the standard of its premises.

Patients with bed sores, patients sleeping on mattresses, lack of access to therapies — all feature in the litany of failings criticised by inspectors in the latest reports from the Mental Health Commission.

The HSE has decided to postpone the closure of an acute psychiatric unit, which was due to shut its doors on Mar 31 and stop admitting patients today.

OPPONENTS of the closure of a 55-bed acute psychiatric unit hope to lobby Taoiseach Enda Kenny when he visits the constituency next week.