Out of the darkness and into the light on suicide issue

His comments on suicide have caused controversy but coroner Terence Casey tells Deirdre Walsh we need to be more open

FOR Terence Casey, coroner for south and east Kerry, suicide is the worst. It’s not the first time he’s spoken to the media about such matters, but over the course of ten years in the job, there’s a perceptible weariness in his voice.

“I wouldn’t call it difficult. I would call it depressing rather than difficult, because you come across a lot of hardship, a lot of suffering. Some nasty cases of cars accidents and things like that.