A 42-year-old woman who threatened to kill or seriously harm a clinic staff member has been given two years' probation by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
She had earlier been committed to the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum for psychiatric treatment which will continue.
Clare Doyle, previously of Albert Park, Sandycove, Co Dublin, was a patient in Cluan Mhuire, Blackrock, when she threatened clinical psychiatrist Mairead Doyle with a knife and a scissors on March 16th, 2004.
She pleaded not guilty to the charges and was convicted by a jury of four men and eight women on November 16th, 2004.
Judge Michael White earlier said the case was "highly unusual" as Doyle had been declared fit to plead to the charges against her, but it was now confirmed that she is suffering from "severe mental illness" and was in the throes of such when she committed the offences.
Earlier, Det Garda Neil Randles told Mr Desmond Zaidan BL, prosecuting, that the defendant was being treated by Ms Doyle on a weekly basis for "alleged urges to harm children".
She arrived at the clinic unannounced on March 16th, 2004 and threatened the psychiatrist with a knife. The doctor was able to restrain her and call for help as she continued to jerk the knife and refused to drop it.
Det Garda Randles said a maintenance man on the premises helped to disarm her and began to walk her out of the building.
She then took a scissors from her handbag and again threatened Ms Doyle. The man grabbed her arm and released the scissors from her grasp.
Her former husband, Derek Doyle, gave evidence at an earlier sentence hearing about her descent into mental illness as a result of the psychiatric problems of their son.
He described her as "a beautiful girl, not an aggressive girl" who had been slow to accept the fact that their child was unlikely to recover from schizophrenia and Asperger's syndrome.
He told how their son had become verbally abusive and violent towards her over a period of years. He said he was shocked by what had happened, as she had never been a confrontational or aggressive person.
Mr Colman Fitzgerald SC, defending, said committal to the Central Mental Hospital was best for his client and she felt she was benefiting from treatment. She had no previous convictions and had never previously come to the attention of gardaí.