Standard of mental health care should not be tolerated

Mental health difficulties affect every family in Ireland — so why aren’t we protesting in the streets, asks Paul Gilligan

Standard of mental health care should not be tolerated

Mental health difficulties affect every family in Ireland — so why aren’t we protesting in the streets, asks Paul Gilligan

This week, the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, described the condition of a man with mental health difficulties being held on remand in Mountjoy Prison because of an inability to move him to a more suitable treatment setting as “a truly awful situation, and one that should not exist in a civilised state”.

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