News Summary

• Sweeney writes specifically of the crumbling NHS, but Irish readers will find many points of comparison with overextended mental health services.
• With a novelist’s eye, he shows rather than tells of the bind health professionals often find themselves in.
• “Beneath the crackle and static of paranoia,” he writes, “I hear the pathos of a human in pain.
• It’S this I try to focus on.” “Without gallows humour, the bleakness would overwhelm”