Middle-aged women at greater risk of self-harm or suicide

Middle-aged women have been identified as a group increasingly at risk of self-harm or suicide.

Suicide prevention group Pieta House has tailored a service for women in their 50s in light of the number of calls they have been receiving from that sector.

Although nationally eight of 10 people who die by suicide in Ireland are male, the charity’s chiefs said they have noted a sharp increase over the past two years in the number of mature women who have turned to them for help.