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Thu 04 Apr 2003'Talking' could have got Carthy to leave houseTHE BARR TRIBUNAL: Mr John Carthy's psychiatrist said yesterday he believed that Mr Carthy could have been talked out of the siege and persuaded to leave his home peaceably.Dr David Shanley, consultant psychiatrist at St Patrick's Hospital and St James's Hospital said it was "stretching it a bit" to say that Mr Carthy could not have been "talked down".