MORE than 450 people have each been admitted to hospital at least 10 times due to deliberate self-harm in a seven-year period, a conference on mental health heard yesterday.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate Seán Gallagher is among the speakers who will address a health promotion evening tonight.

TWENTY-FIVE consultants who retired from the HSE last year received tax-free retirement lump sums in excess of €8.2 million.

LABOUR’S first TD elected in Clare in 19 years said “a huge canvass” was the main reason behind his surprise win.

DO you have sweaty hands? Suffering from palpitations? Experiencing rapid breath? Irritable? Well, you must be one of the 567 candidates contesting 165 seats in today’s general election.

A MIDLANDS coroner has warned that suicide is “rampant” in rural society as yesterday alone he heard inquests into the deaths of five people who had taken their own lives.

A MYSTERY figure from Clare intercounty GAA, with national prominence, is being lined up for a fight to win back a Dáil seat in the constituency.

THE company that operates the Irish Psychics Live premium phone lines increased its operating profits last year to €1.5 million.

THE Irish Examiner was the only newspaper to print my letter (August 20, ’09) on “swine flu hysteria”, which is now confirmed by the WHO.

THERE are 10,000 people who will be on methadone for life unless detox facilities are provided in this country.

THEY are perfectly legitimate businesses flourishing in the midst of the recession.

A DISTRICT Court judge who lets a premises to a head shop owner has ordered him to vacate the building and seek accommodation elsewhere.

CONVICTED criminals are being sent to Britain for psychiatric treatment at a cost of €250,000 each because of a lack of services within the prison system.

THE €5 million centre built in Limerick four years ago to accommodate disturbed youths is still a huge financial burden on the Health Service Executive (HSE) Mid West, even though it remains shut.

A SENSE of gratitude and a feeling of belonging is one of the more unusual motives offered by a candidate in the upcoming local elections for their decision to face public approval or rejection.

Dr Moosajee Bhamjee has exposed serious shortcomings in the revamped mental health service in Co Clare, almost two years after Our Lady’s psychiatric hospital closed in Ennis.