Suicide scourge - State turns blind eye to national killer

The ravages that suicide wreaks is another picture which has been altogether ignored by successive governments because of an absolute absence of even the semblance of political will to accept it is a national killer.

Because that, precisely, is what it is, as the news story and analysis in this newspaper today highlights.

As the harrowing events in Wexford have recently highlighted graphically, it is a cancer that affects all age groups, but particularly young people.