Coroner: State failing to address rise in suicides

A Donegal coroner has said “humanity is being totally overlooked” as the State fails to address the issue of the increase in suicide deaths.

John Cannon was speaking after hearing the harrowing details of two suicide deaths at Letterkenny Coroner’s Court on Thursday.

The first inquest heard by the coroner was that of a middle-aged man who took his own life, and the second, a man in his early 20s.