Mental health experts have recommended against changing the law to allow for greater family involvement in the care of a person with mental illness.

The campaign, which aims to try to prevent future tragedies, may be dashed as a government-appointed expert group advise against a change in the law in relation to family involvement and the doctor-patient relationship, writes Eoin English

LAST Sunday, in an event that in so many ways transcended sport, Cork camogie captain Ashling Thompson captained her county team to win the All Ireland title decisively. Even though Galway supporters — and even some neutrals — might have preferred a different conclusion anyone who knows the personal journey successfully negotiated by Thompson will recognise that her sport was a just a conduit to redemption.

A woman whose husband killed their two daughters before taking his own life has expressed disappointment that a HSE review of his psychiatric care has failed to take on board her calls for greater family involvement in the care of people with mental illness.

A woman whose husband killed their children before taking his life fears another family could suffer a similar tragedy unless the HSE changes the mental health care system.

Huge personal loss and tragedy befell Irish women Elber Twomey, Roseann Brennan, and Una Butler — and each has turned unimaginable horror and heartache into heroic virtue as they launch individual campaigns for safer roads and suicide prevention.

A mother whose two daughters were killed by their father is campaigning to have spouses involved in the treatment of mentally ill people in the hope of preventing a repeat of the horror which befell her family.

An East Cork woman whose husband killed their children before killing himself has accused the HSE of failing to properly investigate the circumstances which led to their deaths.

The mother of two girls killed by their father says she believes her daughters would still be alive if medical professionals had involved her in his treatment.

The mental health watchdog has demanded a review of the HSE’s care of a depressed Cork father who strangled his two young daughters before killing himself.

Combating cases of combined filicide-homicide-suicide is about balancing rights and Una Butler has done us a service by opening the debate, writes Des Kavanagh

With great respect for Una Butler, I read the articles in the Irish Examiner (November 1) in which she revealed details of the heartbreaking experience of her husband who took the lives of her children and who subsequently ended his own life.

The HSE has again failed to answer questions on its report into a murder-suicide involving a father and two young girls — which said there were no shortcomings in the care it provided.

The referendum to provide extensive powers for the Oireachtas to investigate and make findings against individuals was rejected by the electorate last year.

A widow whose husband killed himself and the couple’s two children has denounced the HSE for probing the tragedy without her knowledge or involvement, or seeking her views.

Mental health laws must be changed to ensure children with a parent fighting potentially dangerous conditions like depression are not put at risk of injury or death.

THE mother of two little girls who died at the hands of their mentally-ill father has expressed her deep gratitude to those who supported her in the year since their tragic deaths.

A LOVING mother whose mentally ill husband killed their two daughters before he committed suicide held back the tears as she tried to explain the impact the tragedy has had on her life.

YESTERDAY’S statement from Una Butler, at the inquest into the deaths of her husband John and her daughters Zoe and Ella, was powerful and moving.

THE grieving relatives of a father and his two daughters who died in tragic circumstances in Ballycotton, Co Cork, last week have been asked to remember the “good times” the trio shared before their lives ended so prematurely last Tuesday morning.

A PERFECT silence fell as the hearse containing the two white coffins arrived at the church.

TWO little sisters, who grew up together, played together and died together in a family tragedy, were laid to rest together yesterday.

PRAY for us was the simple plea from grieving mother Una Butler, who must today bury her two daughters, who were killed by their father, John.

Funeral services for an unemployed Cork man and his two young daughters who he killed before dying in a fireball will take place separately.

The families of John, Ella and Zoe Butler say they are struggling to come to terms with their enormous loss as their bodies were brought back to their Co Cork home today.

“UNA and her family will need the support of the people, not just for this week, this month or this year, but for many years to come. It is such an unbelievable tragedy they will probably never recover from it.”