Mother dies after 3 years’ detention in hospital

A MOTHER of two young children who was forcibly detained against her will in hospital for almost three years under a controversial, rarely used law has died.

The Irish Examiner understands the unnamed woman, who is from South Africa but had been living in this country for a number of years, died after a High Court bid to release her failed.

The woman had been held in isolation in a private room under the watch of a 24-hour security guard at the Mercy University Hospital in Cork city.