Suicide among Travellers up to five times higher

SUICIDE among Travellers is up to five times higher than the rest of the population, research has shown.

The study, Suicide Among the Irish Traveller Community 2000-2006, found that the suicide rate among Travellers was more than three times that of the total population, peaking in 2005 when it was more than five times that of the settled population.

Male Travellers are more than nine times more likely to die by suicide than females, compared with four times more likely in the general population.