suicide prevention

Most people are horrified that a person they know and love, or even a stranger, would feel the urge to take their own life. For many of us, the desire to end one’s self is a profoundly incomprehensible thing as it is so far outside our own…

'Sorry, could you not ask me two questions at the same time?' my friend Dorothy implores, looking frustrated. She hasn't had an easy time of it, but despite that, she is not one to wallow or complain or put up with people asking her two…

The article was written by someone I liked. By someone erudite and more importantly, compassionate.  Someone who understood mental illness. Who joked about it, but offered insight. And he wrote about suicide.  About the comfort it can offer…

Last year, the European Child Safety Alliance (ECSA) found that Ireland had the second highest rate of male suicide in Europe among young people. The report also found that young Irish women under the age of nineteen were most likely to…

Always on the lookout for new hip-hop acts, especially from Ireland and the UK, Ceiling Demons have caught my attention. There is plenty of talent out there and much of it will fail to garner the radio play and media attention it deserves.…