Report will help the vulnerable

Last year, there were 448 deaths from suicide in this country, more than those caused by accidents on our roads.

Considerably more than that number attempted suicide last year. In its annual report for last year, the National Suicide Research Foundation showed that just under 5,000 people attempted to take their own lives and that was based on a study of only half the population, and did not include Dublin.

It is more than likely that by the end of the year, when practically the entire country will have been surveyed, the truer figure will probably be in the region of 12,000 attempted suicides.