HIDDEN torment about family and emotional problems was leading to more male suicides, a coroner wamed yesterday.
Dr Bartley Sheehan, the Dublin County Coroner, said young males were now more susceptible to self inflicted death than females as they appeared to be unable to deal with underpinning family stresses.
He made his comments at an inquest into the death of an 18 year old youth found hanged at his home in Clonsilla, Dublin, on July 12th.
The youth's father told the inquest that his son was at times distressed by the marriage separation of himself and his wife about 12 to 18 months earlier. His son had received hospital treatment for depression about two months earlier.
