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Connor Lynch

Children discharged from disability and mental health centre 'due to staffing crisis'

Parents with children at a Belfast mental health and learning disability unit were told to urgently collect their kids as they were being discharged due to a "staffing crisis" on Friday.

Young people who had been admitted to the Iveagh Centre in the Royal Victoria Hospital were told that they would have to leave the facility on Friday, September 16, due to issues with staff, causing a lot of upset for them and their families.

Mum Jeanna Kelly told Belfast Live she was on her way to Dublin to see Garth Brooks, in what was her first night out in months, when she was contacted by the Belfast Trust and told that she would have to urgently collect her daughter Shannon.

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