New strategy aims to cut suicide rate with specialist nursing teams
Minister of State Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran speaks of his own difficulties and urges others to seek help
Mary Butler
Long-delayed Occupied Territories Bill to be brought to Cabinet but will exclude services
Legislation proposes to ban the import and sale of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine
Almost 1,000 calls made to Samaritans every day last year
Service user says as long as charity is there, he doesn’t need to ‘be alone with my thoughts when I can’t be alone with my thoughts’
Call for interim review of landmark mental health legislation after 2½ years
Government advised to act because any gaps in law ‘going to arise quickly and immediately’
Healy-Rae brothers under strain as Kingdom detente is broken
Inside Politics: Danny Healy-Rae denies feud as speculation mounts over Independent Kerry TDs’ political strategy
Two-for-one deal comes back to bite Healy-Raes
Cries of ‘Justice for the Kilgarvan One’ in the Dáil as TD mounts his doomed defence
Taoiseach under pressure from Fianna Fáil backbenchers as Healy-Rae fallout continues
Three Fianna Fáil TDs issue statement strongly criticising direction of party
A quarter of children on Camhs list are waiting more than nine months
Mary Butler says 1,110 children waiting in excess of nine months to access mental health service at end of last December
Compensation scheme opened to children who suffered in Kerry mental health services
Independent review of north Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services found 209 children at risk
Psychiatry and older people
Chronic underfunding of mental health services for older people needs to be addressed
Full Central Mental Hospital could get more beds ‘in near future’, says Minister
Jim O’Callaghan says he’s aware people with serious mental health issues are being sent to prison due to lack of spaces at hospital
Family of woman killed by partner with mental illness speak out on ‘double tragedy’
‘There’s nothing to forgive,’ say sisters of Maud Coffey, whose partner was found not guilty of her murder by reason of insanity
North Kerry Camhs patients were ‘failed by the State’, says Minister
Mary Butler says wider review of mental health care provided to impacted children will be completed within a year
Review finds 209 children treated by north Kerry Camhs were at risk of potential harm
Taoiseach says there must be ‘accountability from a clinical perspective’
More than 230 children harmed while being treated by south Kerry Camhs given compensation
Minister for Health says new national children’s hospital still has more than 10,000 defects
Pay rises for heads of semi-State companies come under fire from FF parliamentary party
Government defended pay increases on the basis that they are needed to compete for top-level talent
New model of care could reduce ADHD waiting lists for children
Mental health Minister to fund 40 specialist nurses to support people in crisis in emergency departments
Huntington’s charity ‘worried and saddened’ by mistreatment findings at Bloomfield
Independent investigation of Rathfarnham hospital found patients were cursed at and threatened
Miriam Lord’s week: Labour still first among equals as SocDems are outvoted
Government sides with Labour in row over Leaders’ Questions pecking order
Don’t think twice, it’s all right to get a selfie in Leinster House
Mix-ups over photos and Bob Dylan, memories of a cow called Thatcher, and Mr Angry meets his match
Ban on electroconvulsive therapy for under-18s on way to Cabinet for approval
Flexibility for broadband customers, immigration reform and flood relief also on the agenda
After their grand day out at Dublin Castle, TDs were rolling in the aisles in Dáil
Verona Murphy hatched a comedy line, but deputy Michael Collins was counting his chickens already
Call in Dáil for immediate byelection to fill Catherine Connolly’s Galway West seat
Deputies pay tribute after she became first sitting woman TD to win presidential election
‘My children would be alive if I knew about my wife’s illness’
Bereaved call for changes to mental health patient confidentiality following killings
Billy Kelleher allies believe there is ‘route to win’ Fianna Fáil presidential nomination, despite Jim Gavin’s lead
Fianna Fáil will make its choice in a secret ballot of its 71 parliamentary party members next Tuesday
‘Once somebody shares the fact they are thinking about suicide, there’s a connection to life’
A €2 million investment in counselling supports for men aims to help break the silence around mental health
Semi-synthetic cannabinoid HHC reclassified as an illegal drug
Drug is commonly sold in e-cigarettes and vape pens or in edibles jellies
How eating disorders are changing: ‘I’m not the stereotype. I’m a man, I’m plus-sized’
People with complex eating disorders face challenges in their illness, in accessing treatment in Ireland and on the road to recovery
Miriam Lord’s Dáil end-of-term awards: from cute hoors to rookie errors and good operators
Big Jim is best in class, although sluggish start means new intake of TDs are yet to get much of a look-in - and as for Tipperary’s kingmaker...
Government accepts ‘super junior’ Ministers are involved in decision-making at Cabinet with no constitutional basis, court hears
Four super-junior Ministers currently attend Cabinet
Opposition parties continue to boycott pairing arrangements for absent Ministers
Long-standing Dáil custom is most commonly used when a Minister travels abroad or is sick
Mental health waiting lists for children not improving despite €30m extra funding
Limerick area ‘exemplar’ of good performance but Cork and Kerry list remains long
Mental Health Bill bypassing health committee ‘sets a dangerous precedent’, says chair
Minister for Mental Health says she wants to ensure Bill is enacted by end of year
Extensions to planning permissions for developments delayed by judicial reviews to be considered
Proposed measure is bid to activate developments such as large-scale apartment schemes which might otherwise go beyond their permission timeline
Ask the experts: why are suicide rates reaching 20-year lows in Ireland?
The latest provisional rate is the lowest for two decades
Surge in child ADHD diagnoses sees two HSE areas contain half of spiralling waiting lists
Mary Butler said two HSE areas were now bearing 50 per cent of the national waiting list
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy bears ‘no ill will’ after winning confidence motion
Taoiseach accused Opposition of ‘mob politics’, while Sinn Féin leader said Verona Murphy’s role was ‘delivered’ by Michael Lowry
Verona Murphy will survive vote of confidence as Ceann Comhairle but at what cost to her standing?
Row over speaking rights has put all other Dáil business in abeyance for two months
Government plan to push through changes to Dáil speaking rights criticised as ‘brazen’ and ‘outrageous’
Long-running dispute centres on efforts to carve out speaking time for a small group of Independents involved in Government-formation talks
Eating disorders: ‘I wouldn’t speak to my worst enemy the way I talked to myself’
Bulimia, anorexia and other such disorders affect almost 190,000 people in Ireland, but help is available
Opposition to block formation of Oireachtas committees if Dáil speaking row not resolved
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy has cleared all other items from the agenda of Wednesday’s meeting in bid to end the dispute
Combined Opposition leaders firmly oppose ‘cynical attempt to manipulate speaking time’ in Dáil
Government proposals to resolve row over speaking rights ‘utterly unacceptable and will not be tolerated’
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil divided over proposed tax breaks for developers to boost supply of homes
Simon Harris warns over failed policies of the past, but Micheál Martin’s party wants drastic action to meet housing targets
Will Dáil speaking rights row explode again?
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy sought to end impasse but Michael Lowry is not ready to let matter rest
Government to contest ‘simplistic but false’ claims by Sinn Féin TD in ‘super junior’ challenge
Rossa Fanning said ‘prompt’ resolution of the case is in the public interest
‘Another stroke’: Fresh plan to give Michael Lowry’s group Dáil speaking time criticised by Opposition
Government plan is ‘total arrogance’ on the back of a ‘grubby deal’, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says
Who’s in the Cabinet? All the Ministers appointed by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and their roles
Simon Harris takes Foreign Affairs, while Helen McEntee moves to Education, making way for Jim O’Callaghan at Justice
Ministers to be unveiled today as almost all departments set to change
Fianna Fáil’s Mary Butler and Fine Gael’s Martin Heydon are among TDs tipped for promotion
Ireland’s next government: Butler, Calleary, Heydon and Carroll MacNeill tipped for promotion
Fianna Fáil set to have 8 Cabinet seats and 7 will go to Fine Gael with Micheál Martin becoming next Taoiseach
Only certain ministerial job appointments so far are the five Independent TDs
Speculation intensifying six days ahead of formal appointment of new Cabinet next Wednesday
Waterford: Mary Butler (FF)
Fianna Fáil TD has been Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People since July 2020
Waterford constituency candidates list: Fine Gael will be gunning to retake a seat here
Election 2024: Sinn Féin has chance at second seat in home of one of its highest vote-getters David Cullinane
Fianna Fáil Minister of State’s constituency office in Waterford vandalised
Mary Butler says she will ‘not be deterred’ as slogans spray painted on her base in city
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