West Cork to reflect on lives cut short

Mental health needs to be talked about like any other illness. People need to know that it’s OK to have a problem.

Joan Freeman, founder and CEO of suicide prevention charity, Pieta House, believes that the crisis of suicide in Ireland is being ignored, and says that the organisation deals with 60 new cases every week, and that 10 more people die by suicide each week.

She believes that suicide is an election issue.