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A round-up of other home news in brief...

A round-up of other home news in brief...

Spice Burgers row adjourned

The legal row over the use of the secret recipe for Spice Burgers has been adjourned to early next month

Earlier this week, Walsh Family Foods Limited secured interim injunctions against a former director, Patrick Walsh, St Canice's Road, Glasnevin, Dublin, who, it is claimed, had been passing off burgers made by himself as the firm's product.

Yesterday at the High Court, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy agreed to discharge all the injunctions against Mr Walsh after being informed he had agreed to give undertakings.

The judge also adjourned the matter to September 9th.

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No children in adult units

The State watchdog on mental health services has told psychiatric services that no children may be admitted to adult units after December 2011, except in very exceptional circumstances, writes Carl O’Brien.

Since July 1st last, the Mental Health Commission has directed that no child under 16 is to be admitted to such centres. From December 1st 2010, this will apply to those under 17 and, from December 2011, to those under 18.

Suicide note on HSE paper

A young man found hanging from a shower rail in a psychiatric unit of Cork University Hospital (CUH) wrote a suicide note on HSE-headed paper shortly before he took his own life, an inquest heard.

The man (26) approached staff just before his death to request writing paper, Cork City Coroner’s Court heard. He was a voluntary patient and had a history of self-harm and suicidal tendencies.