Changing Attitudes to Suicide in Ireland

A survey on attitudes to suicide in Ireland, commissioned by the Irish Association of Suicidology, was formally launched by Mr Tim O’Malley, Minister for Disability and Mental Health, on 1 November 2006. The Association was founded in 1996 three years after the decriminalisation of suicide. At that time suicide was very much a taboo subject. 2006 seemed an opportune time to have some measure of public attitudes to suicide.