Campaigner accuses banks of adding to suicide crisis

A man who lost two brothers to suicide has accused banks of contributing to the suicide crisis.

Suicide prevention campaigner Pat Buckley, a co-founder of the Let’s Get Together Foundation in Midleton, Co Cork, made his comments as he staged a graphic dawn protest on Cork’s St Patrick’s Bridge yesterday.

He said lending institutions “have blood on their hands” for putting pressure on people crippled by debt and already struggling to cope with the recession.