A 32-year-old Co Kilkenny man has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital after being found not guilty of murdering his mother by reason of insanity.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man who was found lying unresponsive on the floor of a seclusion room at the Central Mental Hospital where he was a patient had been dead for a few hours before he was discovered, an inquest has heard.

A Cork woman accused of killing her daughter suffers from paranoid schizophrenia with very fixed delusions, the Central Criminal Court heard today

The High Court has granted leave to a mentally-ill man, currently remanded in custody on charges of rape and indecent assault since January, to take proceedings aimed at securing a place at the Central Mental Hospital so that his fitness to stand trial can be assessed.

The Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her suffered from a “power complex” and possibly other disorders, experts said today.