Suicide Prevention

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Working Life: I'm far more productive in the morning

Martin Ryan, resource officer for suicide prevention, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare, HSE

<p> Volunteers from Cork City Missing Persons Search and Recovery taking part in the Bear Faith and Bear Hope campaign traversing the river from the Port of Cork to the Mercy Hospital. Picture: Larry Cummins</p>

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Cork's 'bridges of hope' lit up for those lost to suicide

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Suicide prevention plan offers a light in the darkness

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Facebook beefs up suicide prevention tools on live video

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Nation has a responsibility to change stigma around mental health, according to suicide prevention CEO

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Working life: Martin Ryan, HSE suicide prevention officer

Console expected to be wound up

Suicide prevention charity Console is expected to be wound up in the coming days.

Sat, 09 Jul, 2016

Figures show we need to do far more - Trying to understand suicide

NEARLY every suicide leaves a legacy of heartbreak. That destructive state of mind is often sharpened by incomprehension, guilt, regret, and no little anger. Each and every suicide is also a reminder that to be human is to be vulnerable.

Fri, 20 May, 2016

120,000 people took part in Darkness into Light this morning

120,000 people have taken to the streets to bring Darkness into Light this morning.

Sat, 07 May, 2016

Christmas period a busy time for suicide charity

Suicide prevention charity Pieta House said that the Christmas to New Year period is one of the busiest times for their services.

Tue, 22 Dec, 2015

Malin to Mizen head: Young Cork doctor attempts cycle to raise awareness for Pieta House

A young Cork Doctor, inspired by his patients, is going to cycle the length of Ireland today to raise funds for suicide prevention.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2015

Hero teenager calls for a greater awareness of suicide

A teenage girl who talked a man down off a bridge after he threatened to kill himself in the River Shannon has called for greater awareness surrounding suicide and depression.

Tue, 14 Jul, 2015

‘Our happiness is being destroyed by cyberbullying’

Taoiseach says virtual world can be torturous as he launches national strategy for suicide prevention.

Thu, 25 Jun, 2015

Suicide inquest hears of bullying concerns

Conversations on the Facebook page of a 12-year-old girl who took her own life show that friends had concerns she was being cyberbullied over her self-harming, an inquest heard.

Thu, 22 May, 2014

Of course early discharge increases suicide rate

Kathleen Lynch doesn’t get it. If the psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists say that “early discharge” from hospital has a bearing on the increase in suicide rates, then they are correct.

Wed, 23 Apr, 2014