Males aged between 16 and 20 are at heightened risk of suicide, according to new research.

AN increasing number of 16- to18-year-olds are committing suicide, according to research carried out by a leading charity.

THE health watchdog HIQA or a similar body should be charged with checking on mental health and suicide prevention services, according to a professor of psychiatry who has researched suicide deaths.

STORIES of families struck by suicide were brought into the public arena yesterday as politicians were urged to push for a national research programme into people taking their own lives.

TODAY is World Suicide Prevention Day, the objective of which is to promote global commitment and action to prevent suicides.

WHEN suicide prevention experts go out of their way to condemn Government research funding as a “national disgrace” it is time to take notice.

On September 10, Ireland will join a global initiative to mark World Suicide Prevention Day with a public candlelight vigil, hosted by the Irish charity organisation 3TS (Turning The Tide of Suicide).

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