£3 million was budgeted last year on trying to reduce the relatively large number of people taking their own lives in Northern Ireland, a problem which the executive is resolved to tackle and one that disproportionately affects young people (and males at that).

With this in mind I find it a little odd that Newry and Mourne Council would glorify the taking of ones own life in a manner so overt as renaming a playpark in "honour" of hunger striker Raymond McCreesh. I might humbly suggest it's also something their equality unit may want to look at.