Opposition to Government proposals to locate the Central Mental Hospital in the new Mountjoy prison complex escalated today.

PSYCHIATRIC services to deal with a section of the country’s teenagers are seriously inadequate, the Mental Health Commission said yesterday.

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

Evelyn Ring

FOR nine years public health doctors have been looking for a structured out-of-hours service to protect the health of the Irish people.