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  A mother from Cork has been left scrambling for mental health services for her son, who has an intellectual disability and autism, after the HSE forgot to send out a rejection letter saying he was not accepted to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Trish O’Neill, who lives in Donoughmore in Cork, has been trying to get her eight-year-old son, Conor, onto the CAMHS team since August 2020. Ms O’Neill recently discovered that her son had been rejected in September last year, but no one had informed her of this rejection. She now must begin an appeals process, while ...

Newstalk’s Kacey O’Riordan reported about how the Holy Family School for the Deaf in Dublin was on the verge of losing their on-site speech and language therapist. This week, the principal and parents of St Columba's National School in Douglas - which has a deaf unit with 34 children - have been speaking about how they suddenly lost their speech and language therapist who came to the school two mornings a week. Triona Fitzgerald, the principal of St Columba's, said: “I don’t think they set out to remove a resource. "I think [in] rolling out this service - which in general and in theor...