Irish Examiner view: Mental health services a scandal on a par with any past horrors

Under-resourced services struggle to offer the refuge needed at times of crisis

Our mental health services are struggling to cope.

Like individuals, societies judge themselves through many prisms. Some societies imagine themselves civilised, and even replete, if they sustain a few opera companies or maybe an army showjumping team.

An embassy in Bern, possibly, or a city-centre, white-water playground might be regarded as progress.