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More Irish people committed suicide under EU austerity than 30 yrs of conflict

28 points| mbgaxyz | 7 years ago |thejournal.ie

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s_dev|7 years ago

Suicide is a weird statistic. It can almost be a indicator of progress and prosperity in some respcts e.g. suicides rates are high in places like Sweden and Japan and low in places that are very deprived parts of Africa/Asia. Theres a cultural component, a chronological one, a climate one, a psychological, phsiological one etc.

I found the whole article pointless really.

Plenty of intersting things can be said about the Troubles/Irish Financial Crisis but comparing the Troubles to the austerity policies in the Republic during from 08' to 12' isn't that useful nor does it produce insight.

HNLurker2|7 years ago

>Suicide is a weird statistic. It can almost be a indicator of progress and prosperity in some respcts e.g. suicides rates are high in places like Sweden and Japan and low in places that are very deprived parts of Africa/Asia. Theres

Ted Kaczynski intensifies. Bring back the freedom from Industry... Opsss I am anarchistic again.

forgotmypwd123|7 years ago

Why have you added "EU" to the title? Don't editorialize. "EU" doesn't even appear in the article.

s_dev|7 years ago

He shouldn't editorialize but as an aside the EU/IMF did encourgage the austerity policy on Ireland on condition for receiving bailouts so there is some partial truth there.

colinb|7 years ago

Does this account for the historical reticence of coroners to record a suicide as such because of the stigma that might be heaped upon the dead person, and their surviving relatives? In the 1970s religion was a much stronger force in nearly every aspect of Irish society than it is now.

I'm inclined to believe the modern data more readily than the numbers from the troubles.

detaro|7 years ago

Despite the headline here, it isn't looking at suicides during the troubles, but people killed.

maxxxxx|7 years ago

Is Ireland in such bad shape? I thought they were a big success story during the 90s and 2000s.

s_dev|7 years ago

Ireland is in very good shape economically. Current problems though include a property crisis in Dublin, sharpening inequality and the problem Brexit presents to certain industries like Tourism and Agriculture.