Partial closure of busiest in-patient mental health facility for adolescents will not be reversed until new year

Linn Dara is one of four approved centres in the child and adolescent mental health service (Camhs) and provides intensive inpatient care to children with serious, and, in, some cases, life-threatening, mental illnesses.

The partial closure of the country’s busiest in-patient mental health facility for adolescents will not be reversed until the new year, nurses have been told.

When the HSE decided last May to close 11 of the 24 beds at the Linn Dara facility in West Dublin, the Government said the closure would last at least until September of this year.