Other issues arise from the report that deserve to be mentioned. It is important to remember what the late Dr. Michael Kelleher, former consultant psychiatrist in Cork, wrote about suicide. Contrary to what had been thought, suicide among young men was as much if not more a consequence of rural isolation as it was of urban alienation. People regarded suicide as an unfortunate consequence of urbanisation and the breakdown of the family in urban areas and the collapse of religious beliefs. His evidence at the time, and it may have changed, was that suicide was proportionately more likely to occur in isolated, rural settings. It is an interesting commentary which should make us less romantic about the things used to be compared to the way things currently are.