The crisis in the suicide rate matches the worst record of Troubles killings
As someone who lives outside Northern Ireland, I’m all too aware of how easy it is to be out of touch. I knew in general terms of the mental heath crisis that rages everywhere. But this statistic came as a powerful shock. Am I alone? Is this one of the many ills of society that’s more or less taken for granted? “In the first 18 months without our devolved government, 463 people in Northern Ireland died by suicide.” This is …