Category: Letters to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor: Dr Gerry McCarney ‘Children’s mental health diagnoses’
Dr Gerry McCarney, Chair of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, wrote the following Letter to the Editor to the Irish Times in response to an advice piece by John Sharry entitled ‘Should I tell my son about his diagnoses?’ It was published on 11/03/2019 Sir, Further to the advice piece “Should I tell…
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Letter to the Editor: Stigmatising attitudes and mental illness
This letter was published on The Irish Times on 24th of November, 2017. Sir, I was very disappointed to see the words “My girlfriend is considering going out with her ‘psycho’ ex . . . he even threatened to kill me” in a headline in the “Tell Me About It” column (Health + Family,…
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Poll shows overwhelming support for government action to curb alcohol marketing that appeals to young people
82% of people who support this action are Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil supporters The poll, conducted by Ireland Thinks, between 12 and 16th June among a sample of 1,300 adults across the country, found that the public would support stronger regulation of alcohol marketing than is proposed in the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. Notably,…
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Letter to the Editor: Mental Health services for children in Ireland
This letter was published in the Irish Times on Thursday, Jun 29, 2017 Sir, – As the parent of a child with complex developmental needs, I was moved by “Laura’s story”, a mother who tries to convince her 10-year-old son every day that life is worth living (“‘My 10-year-old son wants to be dead. Nobody will help…
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Don’t deny them this treatment – Letter to the Editor
The following is a letter sent to the Irish Independent from Prof Brendan Kelly Sir – Your news report under the heading, ‘Mentally ill still forced to endure shock treatment,’ (Sunday Independent, 15 November), dealt with whether it should be possible for a person with impaired mental capacity to receive ECT without consent. Most mental…