New claims that cyber bullying contributed to suicide of Irish government minister Shane McEntee

This rash of suicides is alarming. Way back when I was 12, I thought about it for reasons that I won't go into here. But I reasoned in my still undeveloped brain that my parents would have concluded that I was always weak, so I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of offing myself since they would only conclude wrongly, as was usual with them I thought. I mean, whatever happened to irony, humo(u)r, and WTF when dealing with a world in which the deck is or was seemingly often stacked against one?

Should have never gone into the EU

wtf. Its time people and especially politician’s started taking responsibility for their own actions and stop playing the blame game. Just look at Washington DC

Social media like Facebook have lured some adults into sadistic cyber-stalking harassment and cyber-bullying, worse than adolescents. There are the "leaders" and the "enablers" or helpers who, when you confront them with the nasty sh*te done on their web pages, reply "I didn't do that to you. X did it on my page/site." Yeah, they think they can transfer their US First Amendment rights and responsibilities so they can remain innocent. USE your freedom of speech to describe the tactics and the people who do the cyber-bullying and harassment and the organizations that provide them the means to do it online. Expose them on the very public Internet to warn others away, and you can feel like a good citizen instead of a victim. It works for me! I wish McEntee had gone after the bullies and shamed them instead of being stoical about it.

the politicians that caused the tiger's demise are the one who caused all that is and has befallen eire.

Schlomo!! In the circumstances, why couldn't you just be basically polite, and ask what the Irish media is saying? For your info, the Irish media, without exception has headlined this tragic case as "SUICIDE". Why do some people have to turn even a tragedy into an opportunity for throwing insults around the place? Oh, by the way, we are coping just fine, thank you. Happy Christmas. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

Suicide? Never to be mentioned in the Irish media. It's call "under tragic circumstances there because the Irish public can'r even cope with the simple word: SUICIDE.