Recent media coverage of this troubling subject failed to point out that it is a gender issue.
If you were new to the troubling subject of suicide in contemporary Ireland, then the recent Prime Time programme on the issue would not have helped you to a greater understanding.
In the usual Prime Time format, a short film by Eithne O’Brien was then followed in the studio by a discussion anchored by Keelin Shanley.
What these two well-educated young women didn’t raise, either in the film or in the studio, was that eight out of 10 suicides in this Republic this year, last year and next year will be male.
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