A reference in Breda O’Brien’s column last Saturday – regarding comments by Prof Veronica O’Keane on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme – to “a breach of guidelines for best practice” when speaking about suicide, was made in the context of guidelines for the media and was not a reference to Prof O’Keane’s medical practice.
There was also no intention to suggest that Prof O’Keane’s views are minority ones within the psychiatry profession.
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