St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) has supported a number of mental health and addiction support groups by hosting meetings.
While these meetings were postponed in recent times as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now engaging in a process of reinstating these meetings.
We will share news of further meetings returning to SPMHS on this page in the coming weeks.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings
The AA is a global fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so that they can help one in another in recovery from difficulties with alcohol.
AA meetings take place in the Lecture Hall of St Patrick's University Hospital (SPUH) on Thursday evenings at 8.30pm and on Sunday mornings at 11am. These are closed meetings, which means they are for AA members or for people who have difficulties with alcohol and wish to stop drinking. They are open to service users and members of the general public who meet these criteria to attend.
A weekly, one-hour open meeting also takes place at 8.30pm every Monday in the Lecture Hall of SPUH. An open meeting is one that anyone can attend, whether they have difficulties or alcohol or not – such as family members or friends of someone with difficulties with alcohol, people considering joining the AA, or others – and shares information about the AA and how it works.
Step meetings take place at 8.30pm every Friday in Group Room C in SPUH. At these meetings, AA literature such as the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of AA, are read and discussed.
OCD Ireland
OCD Ireland is a support group for people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), trichotillomania (TTM) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
OCD Ireland operates support groups to people experiencing these disorders. They also provide information to those seeking support. Support groups are run for OCD, TTM and BDD, as well as family members and carers. Details of the groups can be found by visiting the OCD Ireland website here.
Weekly meetings are held on Monday evenings from 8pm to 9.30pm in Group Room F of SPUH.
Getting to meetings
You can see how to get to SPUH here. Please note there is limited, paid car parking available at the SPUH campus. The first 10 minutes of parking is free, after which parking costs €2.50 per hour for up to five hours. Six hours to 24 hours costs €15.
