Patient in apparent suicide days after special nurse outcry

A WOMAN plunged to her death from a fourth floor balcony at Tallaght Hospital in an apparent suicide, just days after an outcry over the lack of a suicide nurse at the facility.

It emerged yesterday that the woman, who had been treated on the ground floor psychiatric Cedar Ward in the hospital, fell to her death at about 6pm on Saturday.

The fall took place in front of shocked staff, patients and visitors.