THE Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has written to the Medical Council, requesting thatpatients are informed that certain anti-depressants can cause suicidal thoughts as a potential side effect.

THE mother of young man who carried out a murder-suicide has called on Irish psychiatry to “face-up” to the evidence that antidepressants can have dangerous side effects.

A jury has returned an open verdict into the death of Shane Clancy, who fatally stabbed a man in Co Wicklow before turning the knife on himself.