Electroshock Protests May 2024 – Stop Shocking Our Mothers And Grandmothers

Mostly, elderly women receive electroshock today in Irish psychiatric institutions. Mostly electroshock takes place in Dublin in St Patrick’s private institution. It is in Dublin that almost all electroshock is available. It is nearly impossible to have informed consent as the medical model is the dominant model and continues to be promoted by those in […]

76-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER LEADS CORK ELECTROSHOCK PROTEST.

Mary Maddock, a 76-year-old Cork grandmother, will lead a public protest in opposition to the still routinely used psychiatric practice of electroshock.  The protest will take place at 3 pm outside The Peace Park on the Grand Parade on Saturday, May 25th. Electroshock is a procedure in which up to 120 volts of electricity are […]

MindFreedom Ireland Dublin Electroshock Protest

The MindFreedom Ireland Dublin protest is on Saturday, May 18th, at noon outside the GPO. Last year a similar protest was held for the first time in Dublin. MindFreedom Ireland has protested almost every year since 2007. We continue to protest because electroshock can cause cellular brain damage and dysfunction. It is assault and battery […]

Cork Electroshock Protest

https://www.facebook.com/MindFreedomIreland Cork Annual Electroshock Protest will take place on the Grand Parade outside the Peace Park at 3. p.m. on Saturday, May 25th. We thank all those who have joined us over the many years since our first protest in 2007. Electroshock causes cellular brain damage. It should not be used on any human being. […]

The Insanity Defense

“Another criticism involves the fact that courts frequently commit those acquitted of a crime to a mental institution. These institutions may have conditions as bad as, or worse than, a prison. Also, those held in mental institutions generally do not know if or when the institution will release them. According to Dr. Charles Patrick Ewing, […]

MINDFREEDOM IRELAND ANNUAL REPORT 2023.

As the sands of 2023 run out and we are all a year older and wiser, it is time once again to report on the activities of MindFreedom Ireland as we conclude the 20th year of our existence. Over those years we have evolved from the innocent days when we naively thought we might in […]

MindFreedom Ireland Celebrates 20 Years Of Courageous Action For Human/Civil Rights.

As we approach the end of 2023, we are proud to be a small, very active affiliate of MindFreedom International. Above all, we value the freedom to be ourselves and unite with everyone who resists tyranny in any shape or form. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16N3epOQRVnNgbyNFa6-7XUxpMSFvZctz/view?usp=sharing We thank everyone who has been part of MindFreedom Ireland. We thank all […]

IMPORTANT NEWS

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” C.S. Lewis MindFreedom Ireland Alert When I first got to know Helena King, one of the first members of MindFreedom Ireland, she shared this quotation with me many times. She was forcefully taken from her home and […]

Be Aware

Breggin states psychiatric drugs, “… are all, every class of them, highly dangerous”. He asserts: “If neuroleptics were used to treat anyone other than mental patients, they would have been banned a long time ago. It is often because so many people who are labelled ‘mental patients’ receive so many neuroleptics that they become so […]