Sir – “We failed to provide well enough for the mentally vulnerable when money was plentiful. So what chance now?” Colum Kenny so rightly poses the question in his excellent reminder of how we as a nation treat our most vulnerable citizens (Sunday Independent, June 20). Over a quarter of a century ago, the then Health Minister Barry more...
THANK you for highlighting the plight of people with mental health problems through Jennifer Hough’s excellent piece (June 7). However, I find myself once again saying “the more things change the more they remain the same”. In your editorial you rightly point to the fact that facilities are unfit for human habitation, much less recuperation, more...
Life on the Streets In recent months we have heard a lot about children in care, the failures of our care system, and the children who have died in care, children like Daniel McAnespie and Tracy Fay. We’ve heard plenty from the experts and the politicians and the HSE officials. But what about the children themselves, and the young people they become? more...
Madam, – The edition of June 17th makes for depressing reading. “Homeless woman arrested after forced release from jail” (Front page) and “Three psychiatric hospitals ordered to cease admissions” (Home News), written by excellent journalists Conor Lally and Carl O’Brien; and “Officials took trips paid for by HSE staff training fund”. more...
