Father who took own life ‘abandoned by health service’

The family of a man who took his own life on the third anniversary of his son’s death says he was abandoned by the health service.

John McLaughlin’s family said he never got over the tragic death of his son Mark, who was one of eight people killed in Co Donegal in Ireland’s worst-ever road crash.

Mark McLaughlin, 21, died along with six of his close friends following the horrific crash in Clonmany on the Inishowen Peninsula on Jul 11, 2010.