The silent scourge

OUR appalling road fatality figures have brought all kinds of Government initiatives in recent years, but we are doing very little about a greater social scourge - suicide.

The silent scourge
Fri, 16 Jul, 2004 - 01:00

In 2002 there were 451 suicides in Ireland compared with 341 deaths on the roads.

Suicide generally relates to males aged from 10 to 19.

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