Campaign to put suicide crisis centres close to all

SUICIDE prevention service Pieta House wants a crisis centre no more than 100 miles from everyone in Ireland to try and stop the 10 deaths from suicide that occur every week.

Speaking in Cork to promote its annual fundraising walk on May 7, chief executive Joan Freeman said this is not just a vision but a hope which would become a reality in the years to come. She said Pieta House has the backing of the Government and expressed her delight that junior Minister for Mental Health Kathleen Lynch had attended the talk.

“We have already opened five centres in five years so it is very much a reality,” she said.