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‘Alarming’ increase in Suicide rate - McColgan

category national | miscellaneous | press release author Tuesday March 27, 2007 14:51author by Suicide Prevention - Ógra Shinn Féinauthor email osfnational at yahoo dot ie

Ógra Shinn Féin National Organiser, Barry McColgan has said he is ‘alarmed’ at the announcement by the Department of Finance and Personnel that the north’s suicide rate has risen by 37% in the last Year.
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In the latest morality statistics released by the department they reveal there were 291 registered suicides in 2006 compared to 213 in 2005.

Mr. McColgan said he was ‘shocked’ and ‘alarmed’ by the statistics. However he said that ‘this trend will continue unless the governments take this issue on board and invest money into mental health services and into bodies aimed at helping vulnerable people in society.’

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