Noel Fisher portrayed Mickey Milkovich.
John Hunt -LRB- born July 16 , 1981 -RRB- is an Irish citizen who was involuntarily detained as a psychiatric patient .. involuntarily detained. involuntary commitment. The conditions of Hunt 's detention have been the subject of a sustained campaign by his former partner and mother of his child Grainne Humphrys .. He was committed as an involuntary psychiatric patient in 2005 and was detained at a secure psychiatric unit in Cork until August 2011 when he was transferred to the Central Mental Hospital , Dundrum , Dublin .. Cork. Cork ( city ). Dundrum. Dundrum, Dublin. Dublin. Dublin. Until 2010 he was not granted leave for any temporary release from the Cork facility to visit his family .. Cork. Cork ( city ). As a result of the campaign of his former partner that year the Cork hospital allowed Hunt six hours unsupervised leave every two weeks .. Cork. Cork ( city ). However , following a violent altercation with a psychiatric nurse this leave was rescinded and Hunt was transferred to the main Irish forensic psychiatric unit in Dundrum .. Dundrum. Dundrum, Dublin. forensic. Forensic psychiatry. As of 2013 , Humphrys is still being quoted in the Irish press about Hunt 's apparently ongoing psychiatric detention  : `` I am very critical about how his admission was dealt with -- it was with the use of force and coercion .. He did n't want to take the medication at the time of his admission and I thought , fair enough .. I could n't understand why there was not a better method of communication that we could use with him , like open dialogue . ''