Problems with health services and lack of garda training highlighted.
Alcohol, mental illness and bullying are factors contributing to suicides among young people, a report has shown. Almost two-thirds of the 104 people involved in the study who committed suicide had been been diagnosed with a mental illness and 51 had abused alcohol within the 12 months before the death.
Almost 40 per cent of the 36 cases involving people who died under the age of 21 had experienced bullying or an assault in the six months before the suicide.
The report involves interview with families after a suicide and was carried out by Prof Kevin Malone, of UCD’s school of medicine and St Vincent’s Hospital, and funded by the charity 3Ts (Turn the Tide of Suicide).
Source: Judith Crosbie, Irish Times, 21/05/13
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