Your editorial (‘Mental health system — Time for a radical overhaul’, March 27) rightly highlights the fact that community mental health teams for children and adolescents are struggling with increased demand.

IT was incredible that a charity centre for 45 voluntary groups, opened a month before the elections by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, was now declaring that it had to close, the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs said yesterday.