President of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Dan Neville, has today (Saturday) said that one of the key issues people face when seeking assistance with mental and emotional ill health and suicide prevention is the extremely damaging stigma surrounding it.

By Ann Wright
Seven months ago, in December, 2011, 24-year-old Brian Arredondo hanged himself in a shed in his mother's backyard. Brian was the brother of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. For seven years Brian had had difficulties dealing with the death of his brother.