A West Belfast mother has called for tighter regulations on the sale of paracetamol after her daughter twice attempted to take her own life by overdosing on the shop-bought painkiller that she purchased while wearing her school uniform.
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Suicide to top Exec meeting
The First and Deputy First Ministers have vowed to raise the issue of suicide prevention at today’s meeting of the Northern Ireland Executive. Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness made the pledge during a meeting with West Belfast MLA Sue Ramsey to discuss the Health Committee Chair’s concerns over the lack of urgency around the ‘Protect Life’ strategy.
Westies take hold of Olympic torch
A WEST Belfast teenager who has overcome mental health problems was one of the torchbearers to carry the Olympic flame on the last stage of its journey through Belfast last night.
Business is blocked out
THE manager of a West Belfast charity shop says extensive road and footpath improvement works to the front of the premises has caused a disastrous 90 per cent drop in business.Teresa Ryan-O’Connor, manager of the Action Cancer shop on the Andersonstown Road, was speaking as the third phase of the ongoing £1.4million Andersonstown Road Environment Improvement Scheme continues work on the lay-by and footpath to the front of the shops opposite the Andersonstown Leisure Centre.
‘I can’t believe they said I killed my son’
A West Belfast mother has spoken of her heartbreak at losing her baby son to cot death – just a year after her daughter narrowly escaped death from meningitis.
Dead son’s body part was retained
A WEST Belfast father has spoken of his “total devastation” after the Police Ombudsman’s Office informed his family that they still have a part of the body of his son who died ten years ago. As part of a recent Police Ombudsman internal audit, it was discovered that in a number of cases the next of kin of deceased persons had not been informed that body parts and samples had been taken and retained between 2001 and 2006.
