Mental Health Commission

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has urged the members of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to reconsider their decision not to appear before an Oireachtas co(...)

Urgent investment is needed in mental health facilities to protect against further surges of Covid-19 or other pandemics, according to the Mental Hea(...)

A man with a mental health condition has brought a High Court challenge over a decision extending his detention in a psychiatric facility to next July(...)

The practice of sending people with serious mental illness 50km away from their homes for inpatient treatment has been criticised by the head of the (...)

Many residents in mental health facilities are living in cramped and dirty rooms, with the unsuitable conditions a result of “years of neglect”, accor(...)

A senior counsel who spoke at an anti-lockdown rally last summer is suing a refugee group for defamation. Barrister Una McGurk lodged the case on Tue(...)

The Mental Health Commission has said it is concerned over delays in vaccinating over-65s against coronavirus at many of the centres it regulates. No(...)

The head of the Mental Health Commission has expressed concern about people, who are not properly trained or qualified, trying to support people onlin(...)

The number of mental health facilities that have reported suspected or confirmed cases of Covid-19 has more than tripled in the first two weeks of the(...)

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission states in bold type in its report that “the conclusions it reaches may not always accord with the prevailing narr(...)