Patients at Ireland’s state-of-the-art forensic mental health hospital are being advised to wear extra-warm clothing, and are being provided with more bedding at night because of renewed faults with the high-tech heating system. The brand-new Central Mental Hospital opened at Portrane, north Dublin, in November 2022 at a cost of more than €200m. It said that, based on the “necessary risk assessment”, the hospital staff were setting up electric industrial heaters in affected areas to ensure room temperatures are “as comfortable [as possible] under the circumstances”. The notification points out that the heating system provides “a hot water supply to the hospital” and that this has been affected also. In response, it said it had “turned on the immersion” to ensure there is a hot water supply.

Source: Irish Examiner February 11, 2026 17:30 UTC