Callely under 24-hour observation at Mountjoy over mental health

Ivor Callely is under round-the-clock observation in Mountjoy Prison’s acute mental health unit.

The 56-year-old is being cared for in the high-support unit — a 10-bed therapeutic section manned by medical and psychiatric staff.

According to the Prison Service, the unit “provides expert, supportive, short-term input for prisoners who are in an acutely disturbed phase of a mental illness or require observation for a physical illness”.