Letters to the Editor: Importance of hope in prevention of suicide

One reader takes issue with the idea that suicide-prevention measures at unprotected quays are a measure 'doomed to fail'; another calls for Cap reform to support plant-based agriculture and small-scale farmers

The Cork coroner highlighted the need to guard open quays to prevent people entering the water. Picture: Larry Cummins

I write in response to the editorial in Saturday’s Irish Examiner — ‘Minimising all risks is an impossible task’ (November 23).

In writing about the Cork coroner’s remarks last week on the need to guard open quays in Cork in order to prevent people from entering the water, the writer pointed out that the opportunities for someone determined to take their own life are manifold, and not all can be minimised.