RTÉ Investigates

An examination of Ireland’s mental health system, uncovering how the criminalisation of mental illness leaves families and individuals impacted and abandoned by the State.

Part two examines the Central Mental Health Hospital, and asks if Ireland’s psychiatric and mental health service has delivered the changes promised by successive governments.

RTÉ Investigates spends a year at the family law courts witnessing the unfolding crisis in care of some of Ireland's most vulnerable children.