Archive for January, 2010
Alice Leahy with one of the regular callers to Trust, Ronald, and the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Eibhlin Byrne. by Eamonn Lacey of The Nationalist Taking the ‘outsider’ in is how a remarkable Fethard woman has lived her life. For the last thirty five years, Alice Leahy has lived with and cared for homeless people, treating the disadvantaged more...
Madam, – The manner in which some of our fellow citizens with mental health problems are treated in our psychiatric hospitals, as revealed by the Inspectorate of Mental Health Services (Front page, December 28th), amounts to cruel and degrading treatment, and clearly represents the worst example of the denial of human rights in this State. It must more...
