The National Suicide Research Foundation’s 2018 Annual Report of the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland shows a 6% rise in the rate of individuals presenting to hospital as a result of self-harm last year, compared with the rate in 2017 — and 12% higher than the rate in 2007.

Family members bereaved by suicide have elevated levels of stress, depression, and anxiety and are at increased risk of poorer physical health, according to new research.

Homeless people are 30 times more likely to self-harm than those living in fixed residences, according to a new study analysing five years of hospital presentations.

The Irish Examiner has won Headline’s Overall Media Award for responsible coverage of mental health and suicide-related issues in Ireland.

IT is not very often that this newspaper chooses to make public awards or commendations it receives for its journalists’ work.

A new report has found that young people with the highest risk for repeated self-harm were 15 to 19-year-old females and males in their early 20s, resulting in calls for risk assessments for anyone presenting at emergency departments with self-harm injuries.

The HSE has confirmed it is responding to an “emerging suicide cluster” in Cork City.

The suicide rate of people aged under 25 is “of significant concern”, according to the National Office for Suicide Prevention.

Ground-breaking research by the Cork-based National Suicide Research Foundation into deaths during the recession has found that the “extreme measures” by the Government during the recession contributed to the rise in suicides among vulnerable people.

A national taskforce needs to be set up to look at the prescribing of barbiturates as they continue to be used as the most common type of intentional overdose, a conference on suicidology was told.

The Health Research Board has invested €5.7m in research teams whose findings will inform decision-making in the key areas of suicide prevention, safe prescribing, dementia care, and team leadership in the health services.

Five years after a loved one takes their own life, more than a third of family members still feel depressed and anxious about their loss, while a quarter admit to having suicidal thoughts, according to new research.

Overprotecting children and problem-solving for them could contribute to higher suicide risks in later life, an Irish GP and author has warned.

People who self-harm have been using more lethal methods since the beginning of the recession, research shows.

Two thirds of self-harm cases seen in hospital emergency departments last year involved an overdose, according to new data. 

In an article by Caroline O’Doherty, “Difficulty in determining cause of death delays recording of suicides” (Irish Examiner, September 20), it is clarified that many suicides are not being officially recorded for more than two years because of difficulties determining how the person died.

A website for parents aims to help them become web savvy at a time of rising cyberbullying and new online challenges faced by their children.

Suicide rates among men is one of the most prominent health issues Irish society faces today and one young journalist is determined to raise awareness.

Irish research influenced key recommendations in the World Health Organisation’s first global report calling for more suicide prevention strategies.

It is a harsh reality that over time, once the names of tragic twins Thomas and Paddy O’Driscoll disappear from the headlines, they will forever remain in statistics as some of the country’s youngest victims of murder-suicide.

Data does not support the general perception that the incidence of suicide in Ireland is increasing, a senior official in the CSO has claimed.

Many lives will be lost unnecessarily to suicide and many others will self-harm due to the Government’s slow reaction to addressing the problem of alcohol abuse in Ireland, a leading suicide expert has warned.

Pressure is inexorably mounting on this Government to ban all alcohol advertising of sport events. Echoing the timely warnings of Geoffrey Shannon, the Coalition’s special rapporteur on child protection, another stark alert has been sounded by a leading suicide expert.

More than half of the Irish population drinks in a high-risk manner, according to Alcohol Action Ireland.

A minister has backed a potential in-depth study into suicide among clerical sex abuse survivors — and the likely impact on future generations.

Almost half of men who died by suicide in recent years had been working in the construction industry, a study has found.

Suicide and self-harm rates have fallen but are still significantly higher than before the recession began.

Within a three-month period, a small area of West Cork experienced a suicide every week.

Almost half of the men who died by suicide in recent years had been working in the construction industry, a study found.

Almost 9,500 people were treated in hospital last year after attempting to take their own lives.

In a ground-breaking bid to establish a definite link between suicide rates and the recession, Cork-based researchers are to interview survivors of a potentially lethal act of self-harm.

Regarding the article on suicide in the Irish Examiner last Saturday, I would like to point out that the figures on suicide for 2012 released by the Central Statistics Office last week are only preliminary figures, and I would recommend caution in interpreting them.

The country’s foremost expert on suicide has warned that the family, friends, schoolmates, and wider Donegal community will be seriously impacted upon by the death of Erin Gallagher’s sister by suicide.

With great respect for Una Butler, I read the articles in the Irish Examiner (November 1) in which she revealed details of the heartbreaking experience of her husband who took the lives of her children and who subsequently ended his own life.

A senior Fine Gael TD has urged politicians to be careful about how they debate issues relating to the budget in order to avoid raising fears unnecessarily.

Over two thirds of people who took their own lives in the past three years knew a family member or friend who had taken their own life or tried to.

The country’s leading authority on alcohol policy has said he does not believe the Government will introduce measures to tackle the growing drink problem that will damage the industry.

Access to certain locations where suicides have taken place may be limited under proposals being formulated by the National Suicide Research Foundation and other interested groups.

Two studies into suicide and self-harm have raised issues about the enforcement of laws on the sale of paracetamol and of patients “escaping” between ambulances and emergency departments.

The devastating report by the Independent Child Death Review Group, published last week, presented details on 196 children who died while in contact with state services between 2000 and 2010.

Suicide levels among young people in contact with the State’s child protection services are almost 10 times the rate of those who are not.

A staggering rise in the number of Irish men taking their own lives is clearly linked to the recession, according to a leading expert on mental health.