Top GAA players will be among the attendees at a two-day information event on suicide in Kerry.

Waterford County Council is to host a conference on mental health and suicide in a fresh bid to “help remove the stigma still attached to such conditions”.

Minister for Finance Brian Cowen must provide a minimum of €10m to fund suicide prevention initiatives in the next Budget, a Government Watchdog has claimed.

A SMALL support group set up less then three years ago in North Tipperary to help people bereaved by suicide, is growing into a nationwide movement.