HSE apologises for deficits in care of man who killed mother's partner two weeks after hospital discharge

It was claimed there was a failure to take any proper action so as to prevent the killing from occurring by either admitting Adam Nolan to hospital immediately, or sedating him or referring him immediately to an urgent care psychiatric unit

Fiona Nolan had brought her 19-year-old son Adam to the emergency department of Tallaght University Hospital because he was unwell, and had psychotic thoughts about killing her partner of 10 years Bryan Cassidy. File photo: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

The HSE has apologised to the family of a man who stabbed his mother’s partner to death two weeks after he was discharged from a hospital A&E.

Fiona Nolan had brought her 19-year-old son Adam to the emergency department of Tallaght University Hospital because he was unwell, and had psychotic thoughts about killing her partner of 10 years Bryan Cassidy.