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SafeTALK is a three hour training programme that prepares anyone over the age of 18 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. People who complete the training will be better able to move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide.

Last Saturday, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Dr John Connolly of the Irish Association of Suicidology formally launched the Living Links Tri Event in aid of Suicide Awareness in Mayo. The Living Links Tri Fundraiser is being held in conjunction with the Blacksod Point Challenge Triathlon in Belmullet on September 22, and is a Triathlon Ireland sanctioned national series race.

The time for talking about doing something has passed, and unfortunately for 23 families so far this year the time for doing something has passed also. At last Monday’s meeting of Mayo County Council, the members engaged in serious and at times heart-wrenching discussion about suicide.

The Taoiseach has praised the work being carried out across the country by the nationwide suicide prevention and bereavement service, Console. He was speaking following the official opening of the organisation’s new outreach centre in Midfield on Monday June 11.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD offically opened Console’s new Centre for Suicide Bereavement Counselling Services in the Mayo area in Swinford on Monday last. Services in Swinford will now be available for anyone affected by suicide. Console will provide free intake and counselling for anyone who has experienced the tragic loss of someone close to Suicide.

A training course which is designed to help individuals become more ready, willing, and able to help persons who are at high risk of taking their own life is scheduled to take place in Mullingar this month.

Pieta House’s Darkness into Light event will be launched on Monday in Westport House. Pieta House is a suicide and self-harm crisis centre, which is the only organisation in the country providing a professional, face to face, free of charge therapeutic service for people in the acute stages of suicidal distress.

President Michael D Higgins hosted gala celebrations to honour the staff at Console, Ireland’s national suicide prevention charity, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

Console , the national charity for suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, is hoping to extend its services to the Mayo region in the very near future.

Console is calling on families, friends, and work colleagues to take part in the annual suicide memorial and prevention walk for the charity's counselling facility in Renmore.