Coroner hears of victims’ previous suicide attempts

RELATIVES of two young Dublin men who committed suicide told the city’s Coroner’s Court yesterday how the tragedies hadaffected their families.

James Kearney, a 25-year-old father-of-one, hanged himself in his parents’ home on Moatview Avenue, Priorswood, after battling depression for years.

The inquest heard that James took ecstasy one night as a teenager, triggering a drug induced psychosis.