Yes but where did you see the figures for provision of services with pieta house? I really want to see the figures because i find it hard to believe and if indeed it is the fact that there are more facilities for women then that needs to be questioned and we need to go somewhere with this and see what we can do. Its all very well sitting on our asses complaining on the internet but it gets nothing done, and if it is the case lets do something about it.

It shouldnt niggle you it is equal. Addiction centers uniformly have more places for men, so do homeless centers, places for admission for suicidal patients in state mental hospitals and in psychiatric wards of hospitals have more places for men than women. In addition my brother and I both have psychiatric issues he suffers from anxiety and clinical depression and i suffer from manic depression, my father and uncle are both alcoholics and after my father separated from my mother and my uncle separated from his wife my father moved in with my grandmother and after she died and his older brother got the house he got a council house and my uncle was more a functional alcoholic, stayed with us for a couple of weeks and then got himself an apartment. Our level of suicide is shocking but there are no easy fixes and money is being slashed left right and center from all areas of mental health, addiction services and all other services.

I am a tailor actually and i worked on a voluntary basis assisting in occupational therapy im not doing it anymore because they closed down the work shops due to lack of funding, at the same time they actually closed down the womens beds in the unit and transferred the women to another facility because the need of men in the area was greater.

Most mens are, if they dont act stupidly and bend to the will of a vindictive ex wife and actually seek help. The one area that men still have an inequality is the fact that custody is more frequently awarded to the mother, but i wouldnt call fat old male judges feminists. It comes from the view of the mother as primary carer and as i said, we need to break down ALL these gender rules in order to have genuine fairness and equality. It is what has to be done for our society to progress and considering how backward we were even in the 90s we have come on leaps and bounds. We have made 50 years progress in this country in 25 years. Hopefully it will keep going full speed ahead. actually also our young women have the highest rate of female suicide in the europe, our gender imbalance in suicide isnt as bad as most other places. A 25 year old irish woman is more likely to commit suicide than a Swedish man for example, and in male suicide we are beaten only by Latvia but in Latvia 92.1% of suicides are male. Progress is grinding on, but all we have to do is keep working, we cant let ourselves become complacent we have to keep pushing for positive change for our country and our people.