This national campaign is designed to highlight the need to end ‘Force’ in Irish mental health treatment. It will also seek to ensure equal human rights for the mad community under the law. Currently the 2001 Mental Health Act ensures that those in the mad community are treated like second class citizens under the law, we can be force incarcerated and force treated against our will, Mad Pride Ireland is hoping to influence the review of the Mental Health Act though a submission to Junior Minister Kathleen Lynch as well as with your help in signing our petition call for the end of ‘Force’ in Irish Mental Health. Stay tuned our campaign launches in September.
For more info on our submission to The Oireachtas on Justice, Defense and Equality just check out the latest news on our upcoming campaign

Community Participation

We are always looking for community groups from the areas we visit to join in our events, if you feel your group has something to offer Mad Pride Family Fun Days please contact us.

Volunteer at one of our events

We have everything organised but we could always use some extra help with the clean up if you would like to help out please contact us.

Mad Pride Ireland Visitors Project will see Mayors and Lords Mayor across the country visiting mental health facilities in their local areas in an attempt to encourage family and friends of patients to make regular visits.

As Mayors are the first citizens and the office is a-political it would be a great lead into encouraging family, friends and relations to follow – “Wouldn’t it be great to see more flowers and cards at the bedsides in psychiatric units.”  This Project is an attempt to maintain a link between patients and their community circle.

Mad Pride Ireland has been involved in the delete 59b campaign since 2009, the campaign seeks the deletion of section 59b of the Mental Health Act 2001, and this will end the use of Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT).

This campaign interferes in no way with a patient’s right to choose ECT as a form of treatment we are simply looking for the removal of force in this treatment.

Please log on to http://www.delete59b.com and sign the petition to end this barbaric treatment.

A new forum for debate

This is a new forum for debate on mental health in Ireland.  It contains the voices of the mad community, doctors, lawyers, therapists, psychiatrists and carers.  Add your voice to this vital debate by logging on to Critical Voices Network

This is not about who is right or wrong the idea here is to create a space where you can speak your mind on the issue of mental health without restraint or agenda.