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The Family Centre will offer a six week support group for individuals who are affected by death through suicide.

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Christmas is a time for family, for friends, for spirituality and for reflection. But for many it is a challenging time when that very reflection leads many people to think about the year just gone, lost loved ones and financial pressures that the season invariably brings.

It is the call every parent dreads; the words that tear lives apart forever; a tragedy that devastates entire families and communities. Thousands of people in Ireland have had their lives torn apart as the result of the loss of a loved one to suicide.

“Shocking” and “disturbing” is how Westport native Joe McGuire describes the ever increasing and alarming suicide statistics in Ireland. Next month the outspoken suicide awareness campaigner is to launch www.talkaboutit.ie a new west of Ireland based voluntary group that aims to bring suicide into the public arena.

The Samaritans Annual Christmas Concert will be held in the Friary Church Athlone on Thursday December 8 at 8pm.

This one day course is aimed primarily at ordinary members of the community rather than people from the caring professions. The course will be held in the Family Centre, Chapel Street, Castlebar, on Monday October 24 from 7pm to 10 pm.

Following on from its successful seminar to mark World Suicide Prevention Day in September, Lifeline Kilkenny, the support organisation for groups working in suicide prevention, is offering a limited number of places on a unique training programme.

Kilkenny Bereavement Support holds an open support group for adults bereaved by suicide.

The first Living Links group was set up in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, in May 2002, when a small group of local people got together in direct response to a suicide in the community. The event was tragic and cataclysmic for the people and there was a huge sense of inadequacy on the ground as to how to provide appropriate community support and a consequent sense of failure as a community.