Nowhere left to go

PUT yourself in the shoes of one of the seven residents of the Island View psychiatric unit.

Imagine how you might feel to think you are being treated as a problem, rather than a citizen. Think for a moment about the emotions, the fear and trepidation, that can stalk a mind which marches to its own beat, at a time of great uncertainty.

Island View is a high-support hostel, housed on the first floor of St Anne’s Community Hospital in Cahirciveen, Co Kerry. Its imminent fate will have a major impact on the people of the town, and the peninsula of Iveragh.