Very sad another suicide and unfortunately he wont be the last by end of year. RIP .

It shows how suicide is a deadly killer that has no respect for fame or glory.
May this man rest in peace and please God,someday soon,it will be a thing of the past.

Poor man….suicide is dreadful for the family at any time of year but especially at Christmas….also I think he has 4 kids…? RIP

It must be a horrendous decision for anyone by make..how awful can things really be in someones life that they believe cant be fixed..

Thoughts are with his family, Rip

My own thoughts and prayers are with Kathleen and Shane’s own Children at this very sad time. I just would like to thank Shane for his true leadership he had gave to the people of Meath East and his friendship over the past seven years as well. May he now Rest in peace.

This is sooo sad, poor family they’ll never get over this, ever! May he rest in peace, from what I’ve read he was a caring person, probably too caring and that may have been his demise.

RIP, suicide it doesn’t respect class or creed,
Terrible for the mans wife and kids

Just have to say this tho, y do people feel the need to red thumb even the most basic human comment of RIP, some people amaze me with there red thumbing on this journal…

Jim Walsh… Im well aware people commit suicide for other reasons than austerity, i was just making the point that a lot of people are down at the moment and austerity is one of the main causes. My feeling on suicide is that people just lose hope and get stuck, i actually understand it, when i was a kid i was bullied a lot, i was the only asian kid in Crumlin, being called a chink and being punched on a daily basis, coming home with my school uniform tore off my back, so one day i took a blade to my wrists, obviously didn’t go through with it, we irish have never been good at dealing with emotion, it’s important we all know our worth.

R.I.P Shane mc entee , didn’t know him personally but my sister and her husband did . I am not a fg fan and like most of the country I am not a fan of govt in general at the moment however taking titles away this was a human being a husband father and friend to many people and now yet another victim of our current climate .. god help his family esp so close to Christmas

I’m glad to see that the journal is allowing comments again.
It’s a shame the likes of Mike Byrne want to disemminate hate. Unfortunately it gives fuel to the Indo fire of blaming social media for suicide.
It’s a compex issue and some sh1te on facebook will not make anyone with an otherwise happy life suddenly think they want to die. That goes for kids as well as adults. The suggestion is really laughable when you think about it.
Our solution to suicide adds to the problem. It is to get people to take damaging psychotropic drugs – and sometimes to give them stigmatising labels. Do we really think that emotional problems are solved by drugs?
For me the solution to my woes was to ease myself off the psychiatric system over two years, and to get counselling. For any depressed or psychotic people, I want you to know that full and complete recovery is possible, despite the fact it is not represented by most of the system. Those of us who have healed are not represented much in the media, but we are out there.The hardest part is accepting you can heal (despite what you might be told) and that you can have a future.
Have a peaceful and happy christmas

Terrible tragedy. Suicide affects us all in some way. We all most likely know somebody who’s gone down that road.
And to I’m drinking Lemsip. You display great courage. Power to you.

Mayb the journal could fix it so u can change ur choice, because I have on occasion hit red or green by mistake myself,

I never said it was solely down to the likes of us but back 6-8 years ago and even further when budgets, very generous budgets were being given out with wage increases, tax cuts, extra benefits, dole increases, more medical cards etc, etc…total squandering of money, nobody said anything…in fact opposition were still lambasting the likes of mc Creevy et al for being stingy…nobody asked questions of this folly and that’s why we are where we are…this liberalist claptrap of blaming everyone at the top is too late, way too late…lets vote in SF next election and see what happens…we should be careful what we wish for! I work with disadvantaged families every day, I’ve been hit badly by the recession myself but my mortgages and personal loans were my fault and I will take responsibility for them…there’s quite a few around though who won’t!

RIP what has our country come to??

Evil from mick Byrne, probably one of those that’s never contributed in a meaningful was and is a habitual complainer….typical entitlement attitude in Ireland

Very sad story and my sympathy to his family and friend’s…
And for the record a lot of contributors on here should be ashamed…. The abuse that is permitted on this site can go unchecked no more..
Journal.ie, get your house in order or stand down
Declan

What a horribly tragic end to a life. I hope the politicians do not hijack this and blame social media any further.. It is quite disgraceful and opportunistic to feed us a simplistic reason for a suicide

Hope you choose to stay in Ireland Maria – we need more high-value individuals like youself to counter balance the FG/LAB thinking. I can’t see where any answers will come and I expect things to get worse before they get better, but I hope the Depression will yield a better country in the end. Hard to know which way it’ll go though.

R.I.P. and condolences to his family.

Suicide is a terrible thing, there have been many in our rural area over the past few years,
two in one day on one occasion.

From talking to people,many have the feeling of isolation and abandonment by the current situation in the country.
They no longer feel that they are being led by example.
Instead
They feel that they are being ruled by force.
They feel obsolete, surplus to requirements,
They feel that they are only allowed to exist, so that they can be tapped to pay up for the gambling debts of a handfull of corrupt/criminal elites.
As these elites walk free, with huge, salaries, pensions, payouts and contracts.

A lot of people struggling at the moment, financially and mentally, suicide is the result of 4 years of austerity.

Meaningful way

That’s okay Gordon, lets pull out of the Euro, tell the IMF where to go! We’re a small island nation, we need the co-op of the big countries….honestly can you give me a definite answer as to where we would be if EU/IMF pulled the plug?

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