Suicide rate at lowest since 1993

IRELAND’S suicide rate is at its lowest since 1993 when it was decriminalised, the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention’s (NOSP) latest report reveals.

It points out that latest figures for death by suicide from the Central Statistics Office show a small ongoing reduction in death by suicide over the last three years.

There were 424 deaths by suicide last year, a drop from 460 in 2007. There were 460 deaths by suicide in 2006.