Kevin Malone
11 results

Travellers’ mental health needs proper attention and research
- Opinion
- October 24, 2020, 02:00
Des Bishop has this week apologised for his 2018 comments on US radio station Sirius XM about Travellers, and in particular to Travellers in the Tuam (...)

Innovation awards: Coalface Capital does ‘a Kevin Costner’ with big-data analytics
- Business
- July 14, 2016, 02:00
If you build it, investors will come. Coalface Capital chief executive Declan McEvoy says his company have to do “a bit of a Kevin Costner” to realise(...)

Five suicides in Newbridge, Co Kildare, raise fears of cluster
- Health
- March 30, 2016, 01:00
The tragic deaths of five young men in the Newbridge area over the past month has raised fears of a possible suicide cluster in the Co Kildare town. (...)

Preventing suicide is more about community than charity
- Health & Family
- September 10, 2013, 01:00
About 500 people die by suicide every year in Ireland. Those working on the coalface of the problem say it’s closer to 10 deaths a week – eight of whi(...)

Suicide still bears a sadly lethal stigma despite our greater ease talking of it
- Health
- July 20, 2013, 01:00
Carl O’Brien’s series, “After the Asylum”, raises important questions about how best to support individuals who have mental health difficulties, but i(...)

Official suicide figures reveal ‘alarming’ regional picture
- Social Affairs
- June 1, 2013, 01:00
Official statistics on the number of deaths by suicide last year reveal “alarming” data from some parts of the country, including Limerick, Cork, Wex(...)

Passing flawed legislation on abortion would confirm groupthink of Irish elite
- Social Affairs
- May 26, 2013, 06:00
At the close of the rushed abortion hearings, Minister of State at the Department of Health Alex White noted the “high level of consensus”. He (...)

Psychiatrists are being asked to be judges in assessing suicide risk, abortion hearings told
- Oireachtas
- May 21, 2013, 01:31
Psychiatrists could be seen to be the “gatekeepers to abortion” if the provision allowing for terminations wh(...)

Abortion Bill risks normalising suicide, says leading psychiatrist
- Health
- May 21, 2013, 01:00
The Government’s plans to legislate for abortion could have the unintended consequence of pushing more young men towards suicide, according to (...)

Hospitals turned suicidal people away, study shows
- News
- May 20, 2013, 22:07
Hospital emergency departments have turned people away who went on to die by suicide, a report based on interviews with families after the suic(...)