Suicide moves ‘too little, too late’

THE father of the 28-year-old woman who drowned her two daughters before killing herself says improvements to suicide prevention services in Wexford announced yesterday are just too little, too late.

“Nothing will bring back my little girl,” said a distraught Eddie Reddy yesterday, just 24 hours after he helped carry his daughter’s remains from their parish church in Barntown to the graveyard outside.

The mother of three could not get access to Wexford’s Ely hospital when she sought help before drowning her daughters, Mikahla, four, and Abby, three, then killing herself on Saturday night. “My Sharon was looking for someone, looking for help, but she couldn’t get it. We will never, ever forget that, for the rest of our lives,” said her father. “The image of her wandering around, looking for someone from which she could get help will be with us for the rest of our lives. When we found out she had called to the hospital and got no one, we were even more shattered. If someone had just even brought her in, sat her down, given her a cup of tea, chatted with her, it might have changed her mind. But there was nobody on and nobody there to help.”