High Court to review detention of man in psychiatric hospital after 16 years

A man with a mild intellectual disability and alcohol dependence syndrome who is detained in a psychiatric hospital as a ward of court is having his detention reviewed by the High Court for the first time in 16 years.

His consultant psychiatrist since 2009 expressed the view he lacks capacity to manage his personal health and affairs. A solicitor representing the general solicitor for wards of court said the man had expressed a wish to live in a hostel and to be permitted into the hospital gardens. He also talked about a love of painting and old Dublin.

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