Services call as 50k treated for self-harm

Serious need for more mental health support'

- BY JOHN KIERANS

HOSPITALS treated more than 50,000 people for “self harm” between 2020 and 2023, the latest data has revealed.

The figures were released by the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland in reply to a Dail question from the Laois/Offaly TD Carol Nolan.

It records and reports information about presentations to A&Es and is operated by the National Suicide Research Foundation.

Junior Health Minister Mary Butler said: “Self-harm rates are stable year on year and there has been a decline in recent years.