64 people have died in murder-suicide incidents since 2007.
The media is being encouraged to be more nuanced, but less sensational, in its reportage of deaths through murder-suicide.
Since the National Suicide Research Foundation began collating figures in 2007, at least 64 lives have been lost to what's termed murder-suicide in this country
In the vast majority of cases in Ireland the perpetrator, usually male, kills close family members and then kills himself.
Media accounts of murder-suicide typically present these cases as isolated and linking them to mental health problems, financial debt or as being out-of-the-blue.
Media must read between the lines when it comes to murder-suicide https://t.co/vydeLixBOp
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) August 5, 2021
Audrey Galvin is former journalist, and an Associate Teacher in Journalism at the School of English, Irish and Communications at the University of Limerick.
She joined Clem Ryan on Monday's edition of Kildare Today.
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