Ms Nicola Byrne:

Somebody else said:

At no point was my partner a threat to anyone but himself and the use of four Gardaí to arrive at his apartment (where I was briefly staying with him at the time), place him in handcuffs which sprained his wrist (as per his own doctor's assessment) and take him away to ... a Garda station where he was detained for several hours before being transferred to ... Hospital A&E department was extremely heavy-handed, aggressive, degrading and demeaning for both my partner and I when he should have been taken by ambulance to a mental health facility for treatment.