'It's very hard to see to a loved one, with cuffs on, in prison, because there's nowhere else for him to go' 

For this piece, journalist Noel Baker won the Mental Health Media Awards Mental Health Journalism award in the National Print and Online category

Catriona O'Toole, with her brother Greg and father Peter at the HSE provided residential accommodation Greg has just moved into. Picture: Moya Nolan

"There have been a few shocks,” Catriona O’Toole says. And then some.

Dr Catriona O’Toole is associate professor in Maynooth University’s Department of Education, and is the older sister to Greg — a man who was placed in prison on remand, primarily due to a lack of alternatives; someone often in distress, a man who has repeatedly rubbed his head so furiously he has created a bald patch, and who during one court appearance was so disorientated by what was going on that he walked over to his family and simply handed them his shoes, asking that they take them home.