EMERGENCY LEGISLATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND. 16, Manor Close, Thornbury Hgts., Rochestown. Cork. 21st July, 2021. HE M.D. Higgins, President of Ireland, Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin D08E1W3 Dear Mr. President, Given your long-standing record as a defender of human rights all over the world and as a spokesperson on behalf of downtrodden people, we are writing to you now […]
New addition
A new addition to the present website in action by Lexie Hurley and Mary Maddock
MindFreedom Ireland Annual Report 2020
With obvious restrictions on movement and social contact, our annual report for the past year will be correspondingly truncated. Nevertheless, there was some activity to report, much of it in the form of creative alternatives. For example, our longstanding annual shock protest usually held on The Grand Parade in Cork in May was confined to […]
Happy Christmas 2020
Jigsaw Lockdown 2020
Jigsaw Lockdown 2020 Reflections of a proud madwoman/MindFreedom When I was a young child I loved to do jigsaws. Living in the west of Ireland in a small rural village, I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to make some jigsaws with my family. Many years later after I got married and moved to […]
Coming Out Of The Darkness
In his poem The Forge, the Irish Nobel Prizewinner Seamus Heaney wrote: “All I know is a door into the dark” And it was into the dark, literally and metaphorically, that I was heading, on a stormy January night in 1976, as I was driven along winding country roads and through the gates of St. […]
Peace of Mind
Peace of Mind Today on 10/10/2020, 20 years free from poisonous, prescription synthetic chemicals, I am MadProud to know the truth about coercive, oppressive, fraudulent, toxic psychiatry! For more than 20 years I was a psychiatric prisoner because of all the propaganda which abounded around ‘mental health/mental illness, especially the idea that I had a […]
NO STOPPING IRELAND – CALIFORNIA SOLIDARITY
It was at a performance of Dylan Tighe’s Record – a dramatic/musical account of his own psychiatric experiences – at the Cork Midsummer Festival in 2012 that links were first established between MindFreedom Ireland and American Dr Karen McNulty, then lecturing in Occupational Therapy in the Cork School of Nursing, UCC. Karen’s innovative and creative […]
LOCKDOWN ELECTROSHOCK
A pseudo-scientific, outdated and brain-damaging procedure. Every May for the past 13 years, MindFreedom Ireland has held a public protest in Cork in opposition to the practice of electroshock, still carried out in psychiatric ‘hospitals’ in Ireland. We do so in solidarity with The Stop Shocking our Mothers and Grandmothers campaign organised by The Campaign […]
Psychiatric Tyranny
In honor of our friend who is attending a ‘mental health tribunal now! Leo, it has come to our attention that Derry Mescal, a fellow survivor of psychiatry, has spoken to you about a very important petition painstakingly organized by a fellow medic Dr Terry Lynch. The lines of communication with you in this age […]