Nationwide forum aims to tackle suicide crisis

The first in a series of nationwide meetings aimed at tackling suicide is to take place in Cork tonight.

It is hoped that the families and friends of people who have taken their own lives will attend the meeting along with members of the medical profession.

It is being organised by Senator John Gilroy, who has been asked by the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children to help formulate ways of reducing the number of suicides in the country — which considerably outstrip the number of deaths on our roads each year.