Charity for prevention of suicide opens centre in Cork

A charity for the prevention of suicide and self-harm opens a centre in Cork today in a bid to reduce suicide levels in the region.

Pieta Cork, located in a former convent in the western city suburb of Bishopstown, provides a free service to people who feel acutely suicidal, without the need to attend a doctor.

“This is a service for people who have already attempted suicide and survived, for those who have a very strong urge to take their own life and for those who self-harm,” said founder Joan Freeman. “It’s crisis intervention and we’re the only organisation that provides crisis intervention face to face.”