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MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
EDITION NO. 34,940
Serving Cork for 120 years 8,000 tyres up in smoke in Coachford SOME 8,000 tyres are believed to have been destroyed in a fire at the PK Rubber tyre recycling plant in Coachford. Our picture by Ian Vickery shows flames rising high into the air during the blaze which is thought to have started after 12.30am on Saturday. Fire crews from Macroom, Bandon, Ballincollig and Bantry responded to the fire, with crews remaining at the scene for more than 12 hours. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, but it was business as usual at the premises today.
Suicides in Cork up due to recession THE impact of recession is pushing up suicide rates in Cork with former construction workers accounting for a third of the deaths.
● Total suicides at 629 in Cork since 2004 ● Ex-construction workers a big risk group ● Children under 15 causing self-harm
At least 629 people died by suicide in Cork city and county between 2004 and 2012 — nearly enough to fill the Everyman Palace Theatre — with the rate of suicides here consistently among the highest in Ireland. The figures are from the National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF) and the CSO, but the numbers are likely to be higher as the 2012 num-
bers are preliminary and are often adjusted upwards after an examination of open verdicts in the coroners’ courts. There has also been a 117% increase in the number of men here engaging in deliberate self-harm since the recession began, most commonly drug overdoses and cutting. Today, the Evening Echo begins a
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five-day examination of suicide and self-harm in Cork. Key statistics reveal: ● The number of suicide deaths in Cork was more than three times the number of road deaths here last year. ● A study of 190 suicide deaths in Cork by the NSRF found that almost one-third (32.8%) involved men who were employed in construction.
● In one year (2011), 617 men and 501 women were treated for deliberate self-harm in Cork. Of these, 41 cases involved children under 15. Professor Ella Arensman, director of research at the UCC-based NSRF, said the impact of recession was one of the trigger affects pushing up suicides rates. ● See pages 10 and 11 for more.
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