Brady: Listening is key to fighting suicide epidemic

THE country’s most senior Catholic cleric has urged society to listen to its young people in an effort to tackle the tragedy of suicide.

Cardinal Sean Brady said young people were faced with great difficulties in finding a job and forming a family and one of the greatest challenges was to communicate to them an appreciation for life and its positive values.

“The ability to listen is necessary in many areas of life but this is one which it is extremely urgent. Suicide is now the biggest killer of young men in Ireland, but not only young men,” he said in his homily for New Year’s Day.