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 St Patrick’s University Hospital (SPUH). Closed meetings are for AA members or for people who have difficulties with alcohol and wish to stop drinking. Open meetings are for anyone, including family or friends of someone with alcohol difficulties or people considering joining AA, and shares information about AA and how it works.
- Closed meetings are on Sundays at 11am.
- For January 2026 only, Monday, Thursday, and Friday meetings take place at 8pm in the Lecture Hall.
- From 4 February, the Thursday closed meeting will move to Wednesdays at 7.30pm in Room F.
- From 23 February, an open meeting will take place once a month, on the last Monday, at 8pm in the Lecture Hall.
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.
