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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes, acting as Facilitator, welcomed everyone to this, the 18th Annual Winter Workshop of the Cooley Environmental and Health Group. Sean Crudden explained that the Workshop was originally planned as a Millennium event, and had been repeated every year since.
Dennis Pringle gave a brief presentation on the history of the mental health services in Ireland to provide some context for the following discussions.
Following this the main speaker was Lisa Butterly. Lisa gave a very clear presentation on Ardee Mental Hospital based on her much more extensive doctoral research. Lisa noted that the psychiatric hospital system established in the nineteenth century was organsised by Districts rather than by Counties and that Louth was a very small component in the much larger Richmond District centred on Dublin. Although contributing to the upkeep of the Richmond in Dublin, Louth residents had very little say in how it was run. After the Local Government Act in 1898, Louth public representatives began to campaign vigorously for a hospital closer to home in Louth. The campaign eventually proved successful and St. Brigid's hospital was opened in Ardee, with the aid of sweepstakes money in 1933. Lisa stressed how forward looking the Ardee facility was in contrast to the more custodial-orientated facilities built in the previously century.
Jim Walsh of the Irish Advocacy Network was the third speaker. Jim gave a wide ranging talk on many aspects of the care and treatment mental patients. He is a strong advocate of a holistic approach in combating mental problems. People with mental issues need to be treated as people, and not just as patients. Jim raised many interesting questions for the audience to ponder over, but stressed that he did not necessarily have the answers. However, he felt that we needed a much more outward looking approach in which future issues might be identified in advance rather than simply responded to.
The final speaker was Sean Crudden who read a short article he published on indymedia.ie 5 years ago after a visit to Enniscorthy. "We are the boys of Wexford........"
After a short break for tea and refreshments, during which some of our visitors unfortunately had to leave us, the meeting broke up into four groups to discuss three themes:
Depression
Services
Suicide.
Each group appointed a rapporteur to report back in the main body of the meeting for a more general discussion. The general discussion was lively.
A fuller report and texts may be found at the link given below.
There is a coincidence in the photo published with this article. Eamonn O'Boyle was the final chairperson of Dundalk Town Council. Leonard Hatrick is a former chairperson of Ardee Town Commissioners. Leonard appeared in many films including 39 Steps.
Eamonn O'Boyle, Leonard Hatrick
Sean Crudden's occasional posts about the work on mental health done by IMPERO in Louth are among the most positive material appearing over the years on Indymedia Ireland. Keep it up. There is too much cynicism and bad news on blog sites and in the commercial media. Good work quietly done and diligently reported is to be commended.
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