WOMEN in the Central Mental Hospital are locked up for 12 hours at night in cell-like rooms and have to ring for nurses to go to the toilet at night, an inspection report by the Mental Health Commission (MHC) found.

TEENAGERS in great mental distress are still being admitted to adult psychiatric units despite commitments that the practice, described by professionals as “inexcusable, counter-therapeutic and almost purely custodial”, is being phased out.