THERE is €191 million in a HSE fund for more than 15,000 people living in long-term residential care.

POWERFUL anti-psychotic drugs continue to be the dominant model of intervention in the treatment of adults with intellectual disability, though there is little research evidence to support the practice, an expert in the area has warned.

DARACH Murphy was devastated when his brother Seamus, who has a mild intellectual disability, was admitted to a closed ward at St Ita’s Hospital in Portrane, a north Dublin suburb miles from his home in Glasnevin.