[colinb]

Does this account for the historical reticence of coroners to record a suicide as such because of the stigma that might be heaped upon the dead person, and their surviving relatives? In the 1970s religion was a much stronger force in nearly every aspect of Irish society than it is now.

I'm inclined to believe the modern data more readily than the numbers from the troubles.

[detaro]

Despite the headline here, it isn't looking at suicides during the troubles, but people killed.