The Health Minister, Dr James Reilly, is dismissing reports that the Director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention quit his post due to a lack of resources.

THE director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention has quit because of ongoing staff shortages in his office.

THE director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention has threatened to resign over staffing issues in his office which he says are “seriously impeding” its work.

IT is an indictment of the HSE that the director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention has threatened to resign because he does not have enough staff to do the work of his office properly.

A LEADING suicide prevention campaigner has claimed Government is effectively treating the tragedies as “second-class deaths” by failing to provide adequate funding to combat the crisis.

SPIRALLING debt, marriage breakdown and depression caused by the recession are being blamed for the alarming 25% rise in the number of recorded suicides.

THE alarming level of suicide has been described as “a national disaster”, with figures showing the number who took their lives last year to be the highest in a decade.

A MENTAL health programme aimed at young children could improve academic performance, a conference has heard.

YOUNG people believe isolation is the biggest threat to mental health and cite drink, drugs and peer pressure as the main problems they face as teenagers.

IRELAND’S suicide rate is at its lowest since 1993 when it was decriminalised, the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention’s (NOSP) latest report reveals.

THE HSE is to launch a special mental health campaign next week aimed at people suffering as a direct result of the recession.

SUICIDE prevention groups are wasting too much time raising vital funds and not concentrating on reducing the number of people taking their lives, the National Office for Suicide Prevention said yesterday.

SIX out of 10 people would not want anyone to know they had mental health problems, research reveals.

Young people experiencing difficulties in their lives were being encouraged to talk to others about it in an innovative national mental health promotion campaign called "Tough Times" unveiled today Whelan's of Wexford Street.

Almost two-thirds of people would hide mental problems, an alarming survey revealed today.

GROUPS representing people affected by mental illness and suicide have banded together to encourage better reporting of the subjects in the print and broadcast media.

No extra funding is planned for suicide prevention this year, the Tánaiste told the Dáil today.

AROUND 6% of the 431 registered suicides last year were copycat acts, new research shows.

Suicide is the biggest cause of death among men and women under the age of 35 in Ireland, latest figures revealed.

NEARLY 500 people take their own lives every year, but the problem can be tackled by greater public awareness, a suicide prevention forum heard yesterday.

Up to 11,000 people who randomly harm themselves visit Accident & Emergency clinics every year, it emerged tonight.

SUICIDE costs Irish society almost €900 million a year, an Oireachtas sub-committee heard yesterday.

TÁNAISTE and Health Minister Mary Harney last night promised action to reduce Ireland's spiralling suicide rate after criticism the Government was not taking the crisis seriously enough.