A chara, – Your report that some wards in a number of psychiatric hospitals should be closed down (Front page, December 28th) should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with one of your esteemed columnists, Vincent Browne, who has been writing about this for decades now and speaking about it on radio shows.
The questions is why have these hospitals not been closed down sooner. The Minister should act now. – Is mise,
PAUL DORAN,
Monastery Walk,
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Clondalkin,
Dublin 22.