Cries for help fall on deaf ears

The economy is in crisis, but services to people with mental illness have been in crisis since the ’80s and the consequences are all around us, writes Claire O’Sullivan.

MICHAEL Christopher Lane was watching Tipperary play in the All-Ireland minor hurling final with his wife when a gunman entered the living room, holding a double-barrelled shotgun.

Christy, 50, yelled at him to put down the gun, but the gunman aimed and shot him twice — once in the stomach and once in the arm.