Central Mental Hospital boss to explain non-admission of 'chronic schizophrenic'

The director of the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) is to come to Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next Thursday concerning a "very sick chronic schizophrenic" who the court heard is a danger to society and his own family.

Judge Michael White requested the appearance of the director after he was told that this man would not be accepted at the CMH because he was not suicidal, had not acted in a serious assault case in response "to voices in his head" and also because there was a bed shortage.