Trainee patient advocate reinstated after ‘error’ saw her job terminated

Whistleblower Louise Bayliss has been reinstated in her job after her employer said “an error” had been made in letting two trainees go.

Ms Bayliss claims she lost her job for speaking out about the plight of mental health patients who were due to be moved to a locked unit at St Brendan’s Hospital, Grangegorman, Dublin, over Christmas.

Colette Nolan, the chief executive of the Irish Advocacy Network, said the organisation now realised it had made an error in deciding to terminate the posts of two trainee peer advocates.