No GPs available in south Donegal to help man with mental health issues

It's emerged that a man with severe mental health difficulties was held in a Garda Station in south Donegal for a day last week because no GPs were available locally to help him. Independent TD for Donegal Thomas Pringle told the Dáil about the issue this afternoon. He has called it "an injustice" to both the person involved and the Gardaí who had to act. Speaking to Ocean FM news this afternoon, Deputy Pringle says Garda resources are already stretched in rural Donegal and there need to ensure that a better system in place to ensure that incidents like this never happen again: