Console worried about prevalence of suicide

Calls are being made for the media to take more responsibility and not to glamourise suicide.

Console worried about prevalence of suicide

Calls are being made for the media to take more responsibility and not to glamourise suicide.

The suicide prevention organisation Console has said it is deeply concerned that many young people now see suicide as a solution to their problems, and that copycat suicides are becoming more prevalent.

More than 500 people took their own lives in Ireland last year, and over 12,000 more were admitted to hospital emergency departments with self-inflicted injuries.

Today more than a thousand family members and friends of people lost through suicide will gather at St Patrick's College in Maynooth for a remembrance service called the 'Christmas Celebration of Light'.

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